BIB_ID
348203
Accession number
MA 368.135
Creator
Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865.
Display Date
1862 Nov. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
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 a notation at the top "For the Church Journal."
With a notation at the top "For the Church Journal."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning the controversy among the Bishops surrounding a petition to the President of the United States, drafted at the General Convention, requesting a National Day of Prayer and Fasting.
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