BIB_ID
347960
Accession number
MA 369.24
Creator
Payne, John, 1815-1874.
Display Date
1856 Oct. 24
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.6 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 a short list of foods on p. 2, including lobsters, preserved fruits, oysters, and pickles.
With a short list of foods on p. 2, including lobsters, preserved fruits, oysters, and pickles.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Reporting that the mother and two children of the "unfortunate family from Virginia" died on the voyage, and a remaining boy and girl have been placed in a school and an asylum; rejoicing that a packet from Baltimore is coming and wondering if Nall and his daughter will be on it; sending "a small order" [the list of foods on p. 2?] and asking him to fill it.
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