BIB_ID
348207
Accession number
MA 369.92
Creator
Davis, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1804-1871.
Display Date
1865 Dec. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
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.
Written and signed in an unknown hand. Davis had recently gone blind and was probably having his letters written by someone else.
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.
Written and signed in an unknown hand. Davis had recently gone blind and was probably having his letters written by someone else.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Sending him "the letter dimissory of the Revd. Ezra Jones"; thanking him for his "kind and sympathizing interpositions in behalf of your brethren of the South"; telling him about the loss of his sight and the death of his oldest son.
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