BIB_ID
347685
Accession number
MA 367.182
Creator
Whittingham, William Rollinson, 1805-1879.
Display Date
[1874?].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 29.5 cm
Notes
Also signed by Bishops John Williams, Alfred Lee, Thomas Atkinson, William Bacon Stevens, John Barrett Kerfoot, and Abram Newkirk Littlejohn.
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.
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
A series of resolutions presented to the House of Bishops regarding George David Cummins, D.D., late Assistant Bishop of Kentucky. Cummins was criticized for receiving communion with ministers outside the Protestant Episcopal Church, and he resigned his position in 1874.
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