BIB_ID
348259
Accession number
MA 368.148
Creator
Burgess, George, 1809-1866.
Display Date
[1859-1862].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (19 p.) ; 31.7 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.
The document is undated, however, it includes the General Convention of 1859 and concludes with a plea that the General Conventions continue which could indicate that it was written in 1862 amidst the discussion of the impact on attendance by the secession by the Southern churches.
With a notation in blue pencil on the verso of the final page "Review / Art. 1 / Proofs to the sent / to Rt. Rev. George / Burgess D.D. /Gardiner / Maine.
The document is undated, however, it includes the General Convention of 1859 and concludes with a plea that the General Conventions continue which could indicate that it was written in 1862 amidst the discussion of the impact on attendance by the secession by the Southern churches.
With a notation in blue pencil on the verso of the final page "Review / Art. 1 / Proofs to the sent / to Rt. Rev. George / Burgess D.D. /Gardiner / Maine.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Being a history of the General Conventions from 1785 in Philadelphia through 1859 in Richmond, "the first General Convention which had ever been held South of the national capital."
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