Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Mrs. [Sarah Russell?] Dehon, undated.

BIB_ID
347411
Accession number
MA 367.146
Creator
Gadsden, Christopher Edwards, 1785-1852.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday night."
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.
Probably written to the wife of Theodore Dehon, second Bishop of South Carolina.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking her for her "approbation of the essay," and asking if she will "make such corrections & additions as may be in [her] power"; asking whether she knows of any sermons "on the subject of Episcopacy."