BIB_ID
348479
Accession number
MA 369.160
Creator
Potter, Horatio, 1802-1887.
Display Date
1857 Apr. 15.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
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.
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
Sending the balance of his pledge and noting that he had to pay much of the amount out of his own pocket; saying that this result is "mortifying" to him, "less on account of the amount [he had] to pay than of the lack of concern on the part of the Diocese."
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