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Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to [Diocese of Iowa], 1883 Oct. 24.

BIB_ID
348492
Accession number
MA 370.39
Creator
Gregg, Alexander, 1819-1893.
Display Date
1883 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
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.
There is no salutation but the recipient is inferred from the contents of the letter.
Written on the letterhead of "The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church / House of Bishops."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Accepting the "Letters Dimissory of Rev. George Harvard Somerville from the Diocese of Iowa to the Diocese of Texas."