Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The constitutional commission : autograph manuscript signed : Buffalo, 1874 May 10.

BIB_ID
348826
Accession number
MA 371.50
Creator
Coxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland), 1818-1896.
Display Date
1874 May 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (11 p.) ; 27.4 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.
Subtitled "A Letter to a Bishop"; this may be a letter Coxe sent or read to the House of Bishops.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing whether the Church should have a Constitutional Commission.