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Autograph report signed, [1863-1874?].

BIB_ID
348716
Accession number
MA 370.81
Creator
Bedell, Gregory Thurston, 1817-1892.
Display Date
[1863-1874?].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.0 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.
The report is undated, however, it refers to the Bishop of Delaware being in charge of the Mission at Haiti; it appears that Bishop Lee oversaw the Haitian Mission from 1863-1874.
With additional signatures of Thomas H. Vail and Robert H. Clarkson.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Being a report from the Committee on Foreign Missions; making recommendations for the disposition of the Reports of the Missions at Cape Palmas, China and Haiti.