BIB_ID
349207
Accession number
MA 371.137
Creator
Wilmer, Joseph Pere Bell, 1812-1878.
Display Date
1866 June 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.8 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his kind letter and adding that it helped him"decide [his] action"; noting that his Brethren in New Orleans are very anxious that his consecration should take place in that city.
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