BIB_ID
347756
Accession number
MA 368.40
Creator
Johns, John, 1796-1876.
Display Date
1836 July 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 26.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rev'd Dr. Johns / [illegible];" it is unclear whether this document was addressed to Bishop Johns or to his brother, Henry Van Dyke Johns, also a minister in Baltimore in 1836.
Docketed on verso "Mr. Isa Easter's papers, Jany, 1837."
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.
Docketed on verso "Mr. Isa Easter's papers, Jany, 1837."
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
Adding his signature, in pencil, to a document created by Sam. K. Jennings, and signed by ten additional signers; certifying that Rev. Isa A. Easter is an "able and acceptable Minister of the Methodist Protestant Church."
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