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Autograph letter signed : Oregon City, Or., to Rev. W[illiam] S[tevens] Perry, 1861 May 20.

BIB_ID
348305
Accession number
MA 369.127
Creator
Scott, Thomas Fielding, 1807-1867.
Display Date
1861 May 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. W.S. Perry, / Portland, / Maine."
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing the first Convention in Oregon, in 1833; noting that the Proceedings were only published locally, and he has not been able to procure a copy; telling Perry that the Diocese has not published anything because it is "not yet an organised Diocese."