BIB_ID
348878
Accession number
MA 371.62
Creator
Coxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland), 1818-1896.
Display Date
[1883?] Mar. 9.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 16.3 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Observing that it is hard to "get ahead with Haiti" during Lent; asking questions about Nicholson; referring to the "Heber Newton scandal" (Richard Heber Newton was accused of heresy in 1883); sending his regards to Mrs. Perry.
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