BIB_ID
348751
Accession number
MA 370.91
Creator
Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901.
Display Date
1879 Oct. 15.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.3 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 23 Bible House, the headquarters in New York City of the Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church.
Written from 23 Bible House, the headquarters in New York City of the Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Reporting on the success of his efforts to increase compensation for the Missionary Bishops; saying "If we stand as one we shall have the Ch. at our back."
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