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Letter signed : Portland, Maine, to the Rt. Rev. The Bishop of Iowa, 1893 May 3.

BIB_ID
349112
Accession number
MA 372.25
Creator
Neely, Henry Adams, 1830-1899.
Display Date
1893 May 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.7 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.
Yedo, or Edo, is the former name of Tokyo; Edo was renamed Tokyo on September 3, 1868.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Asking for consent to the consecration of the Rev. John McKim as Missionary Bishop of Yedo.