BIB_ID
348768
Accession number
MA 370.97
Creator
Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901.
Display Date
1889 Aug. 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.9 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
Asking if the "majority of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were churchmen. Is this true.--can you give me a list of these about which there is no question--I wish to use it."
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