BIB_ID
347968
Accession number
MA 369.27
Creator
Payne, John, 1815-1874.
Display Date
[1862].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 26.8 cm
Notes
Almost illegible because the ink has faded.
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.
Stamped on p. 8: "Saved from the Wreck of the Cleopatra." The African Steamship Company's "Cleopatra" was wrecked on Aug. 19, 1862, at the mouth of the Shebar (Sherboro) River in West Africa.
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.
Stamped on p. 8: "Saved from the Wreck of the Cleopatra." The African Steamship Company's "Cleopatra" was wrecked on Aug. 19, 1862, at the mouth of the Shebar (Sherboro) River in West Africa.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Giving an update of missionary work in Liberia.
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