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

Autograph letter signed : Nebraska City, to Lewis J. Cist, 1866 Aug. 31.

BIB_ID
348964
Accession number
MA 371.84
Creator
Clarkson, Robert H. (Robert Harper), 1826-1884.
Display Date
1866 Aug. 31.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Embossed at the top of the page with an image of a mitre, a cross, a crown, and a staff with "Nebraska" above it and "R.H.C." below it.
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
Saying that Cist's letters to him all arrived during a long missionary tour; thanking him for a catalog of school desks.