Autograph letter signed : Lancaster, to Thomas Elder, 1835 Sept. 18.

Record ID: 
348383
Accession number: 
MA 370.22
Author: 
Bowman, Samuel, 1800-1861.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes: 

Address panel with traces of a seal to "Thos. Elder, Esq."
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.

Summary: 

Soliciting his patronage for the new school he has founded; encouraging him to send his sons to the school.

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.