BIB_ID
349269
Accession number
MA 371.159
Creator
Cummins, George D. (George David), 1822-1876.
Display Date
1868 May 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.9 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
Telling him that the carte he is returning is a conterfeit and "not a true likeness"; adding that some day he will try to send him a better one.
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