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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Rapidan, Culpeper Co., Va., to Bishop [William Bacon] Stevens, 1874 June 27.

BIB_ID
349225
Accession number
MA 371.146
Creator
Wilmer, Joseph Pere Bell, 1812-1878.
Display Date
1874 June 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.5 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 sympathy "in behalf of our suffering people"; expressing regret that he gave someone a letter of introduction; discussing church business.