BIB_ID
347256
Accession number
MA 367.124
Creator
Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864.
Display Date
1847 Sept. 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.2 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.
Recipient's name is illegible but may read "Potter." The letter is addressed to "Rt. Rev.," the typical address for a bishop, and Alonzo Potter became Bishop of Pennsylvania in 1845.
Recipient's name is illegible but may read "Potter." The letter is addressed to "Rt. Rev.," the typical address for a bishop, and Alonzo Potter became Bishop of Pennsylvania in 1845.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
A letter of introduction.
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