BIB_ID
348718
Accession number
MA 370.83
Creator
Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901.
Display Date
1860 Sept. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.8 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 "Girard House."
Written from "Girard House."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying that "While East I desire to interest some of my brethren more in the great work for Christ which is to be done in the west;" asking for his consent "to visit some of the parishes in Phila. next month. I ask you, lest I might in some way interfere with any Diocesan missionary appeals."
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