BIB_ID
347925
Accession number
MA 369.18
Creator
Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887.
Display Date
1866 May 11.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Includes a copy of the resolution on p. 2 in an unknown hand, with an additional signed note from Green certifying that "the above is a true copy of a Resolution adopted on the ninth day of May 1866 by the Convention of the Prot. Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Mississippi."
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.
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
Sending him a Resolution "which once more unites us [the Diocese of Mississippi and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America] in a Legislative capacity, and fills up the gulf which so lately divided us"; reporting that it passed unanimously; asking Hopkins to visit the South.
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