BIB_ID
348669
Accession number
MA 371.15
Creator
Wilmer, Richard H. (Richard Hooker), 1816-1900.
Display Date
1880 Jan. 12.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.7 cm
Notes
A printed document with manuscript additions by Wilmer.
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
Deposing F.W. Damus because he is "subject to a morbid physical condition, which has incited him to wrong-doing, and which condition is liable at any time to recur; thus unfitting him for the Exercise of the Ministry."
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