BIB_ID
347183
Accession number
MA 367.107
Creator
Kemper, Jackson, 1789-1870.
Display Date
1860 Aug. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The Lady Elgin was a steamship that sailed on Lake Michigan. She was destroyed in a shipwreck off Highwood, Ill., on Sept. 8, 1860, one month after this letter was written.
The Lady Elgin was a steamship that sailed on Lake Michigan. She was destroyed in a shipwreck off Highwood, Ill., on Sept. 8, 1860, one month after this letter was written.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Telling him that he received a letter from Green Bay "begging [Hodges] would come and see them and judge for [himself] if the parish would suit [him]"; informing him that Brother Nicholas joined him at Milwaukee.
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