BIB_ID
348048
Accession number
MA 368.106
Creator
Cobbs, R.H., Rev.
Display Date
1893 Dec. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.7 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.
The fragment written by Bishop Cobbs and signed with his initials reads: "Distinctness - Earnestness - Confidence & Energy--these qualities requisite to make a successful Preacher.
Written on the letterhead of St. Paul's Church, Greensboro, Alabama.
The fragment written by Bishop Cobbs and signed with his initials reads: "Distinctness - Earnestness - Confidence & Energy--these qualities requisite to make a successful Preacher.
Written on the letterhead of St. Paul's Church, Greensboro, Alabama.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Regretting that he cannot comply with his request as he does not have any letter from his "Father in my possession;" enclosing a fragment of a memorandum in his father's handwriting and signed with his initials.
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