BIB_ID
348957
Accession number
MA 370.138
Creator
Stevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887.
Display Date
1879 Mar. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.5 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 on the letterhead of the "Diocese of Pennsylvania, / Episcopal Rooms, / 708 Walnut Street, / Philadelphia."
Written on the letterhead of the "Diocese of Pennsylvania, / Episcopal Rooms, / 708 Walnut Street, / Philadelphia."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter; commenting on his news of a recent bequests which "are indeed a great boon to your Diocese & I hope that they may be the precursor of other liberal gifts & bequests for the same Churchly ends;" saying how pleased he is with the promise of his "territorial Diocese."
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