BIB_ID
347207
Accession number
MA 367.113
Creator
McCoskry, Samuel Allen, 1804-1886.
Display Date
ca. 1865.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 14.8 x 19.4 cm
Notes
Note is written on the back of McCoskry's signed copy of "Letter Proposed to be Addressed to the Southern Bishops." This letter invites the Southern bishops to put aside their differences with the North and attend the General Convention following the end of the Civil War.
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.
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
"With the greatest pleasure I sign it. It suits my head and my heart."
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