BIB_ID
348380
Accession number
MA 370.21
Creator
Bowman, Samuel, 1800-1861.
Display Date
1826 Oct. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
A special Convention was held to oppose the consecration of Henry Ustick Onderdonk as Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania.
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "The Rev. Geo. Boyd / Philadelphia."
Docketed on verso.
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.
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "The Rev. Geo. Boyd / Philadelphia."
Docketed on verso.
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
Concerning questions that surround the necessity for a special Convention which was called for October; asking for his opinion on the issues.
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