BIB_ID
348973
Accession number
MA 370.142
Creator
Stevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887.
Display Date
1884 Jan. 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Bishop Riley resigned from his position as Missionary Bishop to Mexico in 1884.
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 from the "Episcopal Residence / 1633 Spruce Street."
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 from the "Episcopal Residence / 1633 Spruce Street."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Remembering that he was consecrated twenty-two years ago that day with Bishop Perry at his side; reflecting on his life and the "prospective sunset;" expressing his frustration with the Mexican Mission, saying "three Bishops designated to go there have found out a way not to do it. So now we are thinking of summoning Bp. R[iley] to New York & dealing with him [illegible] in person. O how much trouble he has given us & I fear has wrecked one of the most hopeful Missions our Church ever started in Foreign Lands."
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