BIB_ID
347748
Accession number
MA 368.39
Creator
Johns, John, 1796-1876.
Display Date
1832 May 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rev, George Boyd / Philadelphia."
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.
This letter is directed to "The board of Managers of the Episcopal self-supported Schools, near Wilmington."
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.
This letter is directed to "The board of Managers of the Episcopal self-supported Schools, near Wilmington."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Submitting a letter of application, written on the recto, from a father for his sixteen year-old son; writing on the verso, Bishop Johns attests to the son's character.
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