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

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

Autograph letter signed : New York City, to an unidentified Bishop, 1867 July 8.

BIB_ID
349279
Accession number
MA 372.60
Creator
Young, J. Freeman (John Freeman), 1820-1885.
Display Date
1867 July 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.4 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.
Written from "30 Laight Street."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Suggesting that consecration service be divided into two parts as the "Service with the Morning Prayer immediately preceding is so very long & Trinity Church in mid-summer is so very hot;" discussing various aspects of the required majority consent of the Standing Committees to his election.