BIB_ID
348169
Accession number
MA 369.83
Creator
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1792-1854.
Display Date
1820 Jan. 15.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. Mr. Carlile / Salem / Mass."
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
Explaining that he could not write because he was busy "changing [his] parish & place of residence"; reporting that he has accepted a position as Assistant Minister of Trinity Church; noting that his family is not there yet because he didn't think his wife could handle"the fatigue of housekeeping, paying & receiving visits & the other etceteras of a city life ... together with the care of an infant"; telling him that he feels lonely without his family; reporting that next month he is going to Hartford to see his wife and to Boston to visit his sick mother.
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