BIB_ID
347945
Accession number
MA 368.70
Creator
Henshaw, J. P. K. (John Prentiss Kewley), 1792-1852.
Display Date
1827 Sept. 21.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rev'd. S.C. Stratton / Snow hill / Worcester County / Md."
Docketed on verso.
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 autograph copy of a letter to the House of Bishops from the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Maryland notifying them that they are withdrawing their consent, previously given, to the consecration of the Rev. H.U. Onderdonk as Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania.
Docketed on verso.
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 autograph copy of a letter to the House of Bishops from the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Maryland notifying them that they are withdrawing their consent, previously given, to the consecration of the Rev. H.U. Onderdonk as Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Informing him of the decision of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Maryland to withdraw their consent from the consecration of Rev. H.U. Onderdonk; asking that he sign the letter they are sending him or write a separate letter to acknowledge this decision.
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