BIB_ID
348655
Accession number
MA 370.59
Creator
Bedell, Gregory Thurston, 1817-1892.
Display Date
1858 Oct. 5.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (16 p.) ; 16.2 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.
Written from the "Parsonage Asc:;" Rev. Bedell was the rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York City from 1843-1859.
Written from the "Parsonage Asc:;" Rev. Bedell was the rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York City from 1843-1859.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Sending his childhood memories of St. Andrews Church [Philadelphia]; describing at length and in detail his memories of Sunday School there; hoping that his reminiscences might be useful in his book on St. Andrews.
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