BIB_ID
348141
Accession number
MA 368.126
Creator
Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865.
Display Date
1842 Nov. 21.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "The Hon. / John C. Spencer / Sec'y of War / Washington / D.C."
Bishop Potter was invited by John Spencer, Secretary of War, to serve on the Board of Visitors at West Point in 1842; he served as Secretary of the Board in 1842.
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.
Bishop Potter was invited by John Spencer, Secretary of War, to serve on the Board of Visitors at West Point in 1842; he served as Secretary of the Board in 1842.
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing his concern that Americans are not depositing enough of their earnings into Savings Banks; asking him to consider this fact as it relates to soldiers and sailors; asking for authority to make corrections and/or edits to the Annual Report of the Board of Visitors [of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point].
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