BIB_ID
347964
Accession number
MA 368.74
Creator
Henshaw, J. P. K. (John Prentiss Kewley), 1792-1852.
Display Date
1850 July 31.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Informing him he has been ill and is unable to "perform my public duty on Sunday next;" asking if he would take over his duties while he is "in this city" on his way to Maine.
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