BIB_ID
348096
Accession number
MA 368.117
Creator
Southgate, Horatio, 1812-1894.
Display Date
1840 Dec. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 26.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, / Rector of Grace Church / Providence, / R.I. / U.S.A."
Docketed on the 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.
Docketed on the 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Relating news of a mutual friend he saw in Paris; describing his plan for his time in Constantinople and saying he wants to get the approval and cooperation of the local church before going out among the people; describing, at length and in detail, his thoughts on the state of religion in the Eastern Church.
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