BIB_ID
348965
Accession number
MA 370.140
Creator
Stevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887.
Display Date
1880 Mar. 12.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
Mr. Godfrey was the Treasurer for the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
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.
With the letter from Bishop Green to Bishop Stevens (pages 1 and 2) and with Mr. Godfrey's reply to Bishop Stevens on page 3 under Bishop Stevens' note to Mr. Godfrey.
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.
With the letter from Bishop Green to Bishop Stevens (pages 1 and 2) and with Mr. Godfrey's reply to Bishop Stevens on page 3 under Bishop Stevens' note to Mr. Godfrey.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Complying with a request from Bishop Green [Mississippi] for $1,500 for an Orphan Asylum by requesting that Mr. Godfrey draft a check for Bishop Green and notify him, in his capacity as Treasurer, that the request has been fulfilled.
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