BIB_ID
348224
Accession number
MA 369.94
Creator
Davis, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1804-1871.
Display Date
1866 Mar. 9.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23 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.
Signed by Davis as Bishop of South Carolina; attested by J[ohn] D. McCollough as "Sect. of Council of Diocese of South Carolina."
With seal.
Signed by Davis as Bishop of South Carolina; attested by J[ohn] D. McCollough as "Sect. of Council of Diocese of South Carolina."
With seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Sent to Perry as "Secretary of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies of the General Convention" to notify him that the Diocese of South Carolina "has acceded to the Constitution and Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States."
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