BIB_ID
347889
Accession number
MA 369.13
Creator
Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887.
Display Date
1820 Jan. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Revd. John S. Ravenscroft / Boydton."
Docketed.
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.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
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.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Arranging for Ravenscroft to preach and baptize in Williamsborough at the end of the month; asking him to "drop some remarks on the excellency and sufficiency of our admirable liturgy for all the purposes of public worship"; warning him that "this place is surrounded by Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian Meeting Houses, to which both the inhabitants in and about this place are measurably attached, if not connected; hoping he will spend a day or two visiting with them.
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