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Autograph letter signed : Salt Lake City, Utah, to Bishop Williams, 1868 Aug. 3.

BIB_ID
349175
Accession number
MA 372.33
Creator
Tuttle, Daniel Sylvester, 1837-1923.
Display Date
1868 Aug. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Bp. Williams / of Connecticut."
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
Thanking him for his encouragement for the work he is doing; explaining the nature of the debt he faces; outlining the fund raising obligations he will need to undertake to clear the debt, pay the rent on "Independence Hall for the school" and for building a "suitable school house."