BIB_ID
347600
Accession number
MA 367.165
Creator
Whittingham, William Rollinson, 1805-1879.
Display Date
1862 Dec. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.6 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
Trying to correct an accusation that he is "a false reporter"; arguing that "what [he] said was strictly true, unless interpreted on a contruction foreign to [his] meaning and intent"; giving his interpretation of the events at a meeting of bishops that led to this accusation of being "a false reporter."
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