BIB_ID
347489
Accession number
MA 366.177
Creator
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Display Date
[1868-1884].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.3 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.
The year of writing is not given, but he refers to himself as the Presiding Bishop and those dates, 1868-1884, are used in dating this letter.
The year of writing is not given, but he refers to himself as the Presiding Bishop and those dates, 1868-1884, are used in dating this letter.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Inquiring as to "whether it is true which I have heard, that over & above the $500, which has been paid me, they voted me $250 more;" asking that he "remind the Treasurer that the funds are at the lowest ebb."
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