BIB_ID
347803
Accession number
MA 369.4
Creator
Upfold, George, 1796-1872.
Display Date
1849 Aug. 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25 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
Noting that Bishop [Thomas Church] Brownell told him about "the outrage attempted to be perpetrated on [Upfold] by Bp. [Philander] Chase"; reporting that he has addressed a statement to all the Bishops regarding the matter; hoping that he won't "be oblige[d] in self defense to adopt more stringent measures"; mentioning Bishops [William Heathcote] De Lancey and [Benjamin T.?] Onderdonk.
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