BIB_ID
348218
Accession number
MA 369.93
Creator
Davis, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1804-1871.
Display Date
1866 Mar. 9.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.4 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 in an unknown hand. Davis had recently gone blind and was probably having someone write his letters for him.
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 in an unknown hand. Davis had recently gone blind and was probably having someone write his letters for him.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his "sympathizing and affectionate letter"; telling him that he has submitted the necessary documents "for the return of [his] Diocese to the Church in the United States.".
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