BIB_ID
347450
Accession number
MA 366.163
Creator
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Display Date
1876 Aug. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.4 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.
With a note, signed with initials, saying he has filed and recorded the names as he received them.
With a note, signed with initials, saying he has filed and recorded the names as he received them.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Providing a list of the 31 Bishops who consented [to his election as Bishop of Iowa], with the parenthetical expression "( Not one dissent!);" asking for his "endorsement of the program" and asking whether it should be postponed by a month.
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