Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Baltimore, to Rev. [William Bacon] Stevens, 1872 Mar. 23.

BIB_ID
347648
Accession number
MA 367.175
Creator
Whittingham, William Rollinson, 1805-1879.
Display Date
1872 Mar. 23.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 15.2 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
Welcoming him back from his trip abroad; telling him that "there is no truth in the report" that he [Whittingham] plans to go abroad; noting that he has had his "own share both of sickness and of sorrows" recently.