BIB_ID
348130
Accession number
MA 368.125
Creator
Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865.
Display Date
1838 [April 22].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "The Hon. / John C. Spencer / Canandaigua / Ontario Co. / S. of N.Y."
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.
The day of writing is from the postmark; it has been torn away from the letter leaving only the year of writing intact.
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.
The day of writing is from the postmark; it has been torn away from the letter leaving only the year of writing intact.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Scheduling a sub-Committee meeting at Astor House in New York; referring to the allocation of funds within the Episcopate; discussing the possibility of dividing the diocese.
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