BIB_ID
348291
Accession number
MA 369.124
Creator
Scott, Thomas Fielding, 1807-1867.
Display Date
1848 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. Wm. Bacon Stevens, D.D. / Philadelphia / Penn."
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Congratulating him on his "settlement in [his] new and interesting field of labor"; asking if he knows of anyone to take charge of the school in his parish; noting that he would "prefer a clergyman, other things being equal, but would be entirely content with a pious and discreet layman of suitable ability, and quite as well with a competent lady"; encouraging him to call on a Mrs. Dr. Stewartson who is spending the winter in Philadelphia; reporting that his wife is"but feeble, but hopes to do better in [their] own cottage" which is being built.
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