BIB_ID
348959
Accession number
MA 371.82
Creator
Clarkson, Robert H. (Robert Harper), 1826-1884.
Display Date
1866 June 27.
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.
Recipient is likely Lewis J. Cist based on Clarkson's references to St. Louis (where Cist lives), sending him a photograph, and "one good turn deserves another."
Recipient is likely Lewis J. Cist based on Clarkson's references to St. Louis (where Cist lives), sending him a photograph, and "one good turn deserves another."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Asking him to get a circular of school supplies and furniture so he can order items for a school he is opening; commenting on a photograph of himself that he recently sent to the recipient.
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