BIB_ID
348061
Accession number
MA 368.110
Creator
Boone, William Jones, 1811-1864.
Display Date
1853 Feb. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.5 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
Thanking him for his letter; recalling their times together "at the old medical college in Charleston" and expressing pleasure at his success; saying he has been separated from his wife and children for a year and is returning to the South.
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