BIB_ID
347913
Accession number
MA 369.16
Creator
Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887.
Display Date
1865 Aug. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.2 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.
With an additional letter to Hopkins on p. 3, written from Newport, R.I. on Sept. 8, 1865 and signed "LPWB." The letter asks Hopkins to meet the Bishop of Montreal at West Point on the 26th or 27th of Sept. 1865.
With an additional letter to Hopkins on p. 3, written from Newport, R.I. on Sept. 8, 1865 and signed "LPWB." The letter asks Hopkins to meet the Bishop of Montreal at West Point on the 26th or 27th of Sept. 1865.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter inviting him to the General Convention and assuring him of a "cordial welcome," but declining his invitation because of "considerations" which "time will develop."
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