BIB_ID
348670
Accession number
MA 370.63
Creator
Bedell, Gregory Thurston, 1817-1892.
Display Date
1865 July 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.5 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of his "circular letter of June 22nd;" sympathizing with his desire to have the southern Bishops at the General Convention; declining to sign it "lest they should infer that I regret the share which our Church has taken in indicating the holy principle of loyalty."
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