BIB_ID
347611
Accession number
MA 368.12
Creator
Elliott, Stephen, 1806-1866.
Display Date
1866 Jan. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.1 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
Informing him that he has "today given official notice" to the Southern Dioceses of his "withdrawal from that Confederation and of the return of Georgia to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States."
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