BIB_ID
348978
Accession number
MA 371.85
Creator
Clarkson, Robert H. (Robert Harper), 1826-1884.
Display Date
[1868?].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Date is based on the opening sentence, "Three years ago at the call of the Church I assumed the Episcopal oversight of the Territories of Nebraska & Dakota." Clarkson was consecrated Missionary Bishop of Nebraska and Dakota on November 15, 1865.
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.
Probably submitted to the Journal of the House of Bishops.
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.
Probably submitted to the Journal of the House of Bishops.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
A brief summary of the Episcopal Church's activities in Nebraska and Dakota. Clarkson reports that Nebraska has joined the United States and that he fixed his residence at Omaha, the state capital.
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