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Autograph letter signed : Bellows Falls, to Rev. T. Carlile, 1820 July 26.

BIB_ID
347971
Accession number
MA 368.78
Creator
Chase, Carlton, 1794-1870.
Display Date
1820 July 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Rev. Thomas Carlile / Salem / Mass."
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.
Rev. Chase married Harriet Cutler in Windsor, Vermont on September 13, 1820.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Relating personal news of the church and his upcoming marriage; asking about rumors he has heard that he has "grown Calvinistic."