BIB_ID
347460
Accession number
MA 366.168
Creator
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Display Date
1877 Apr. 16.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.9 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Being a printed form letter announcing the consecration of the Rev. John Richardson Selwyn as "Missionary Bishop of the Church among the Islands of Melanasia."
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