BIB_ID
347900
Accession number
MA 368.58
Creator
Eastburn, Manton, 1801-1872.
Display Date
1853 Mar. 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 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
Regretting that he knows of no one who would "suit your purposes. Of such men there is a great scarcity just now; all that are in this Diocese are needed for 'home consumption'."
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