BIB_ID
348168
Accession number
MA 369.82
Creator
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1792-1854.
Display Date
1818 July 31.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Rt Rev. Bp. Griswold / Bristol / Rhode-Island."
Docketed.
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Reporting that he has been "appointed to collect subscriptions in the Eastern Diocese for the Theological School"; asking for Griswold's "direction and advice"; discussing travel plans.
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