BIB_ID
349325
Accession number
MA 373.4
Creator
Pierce, Henry Niles, 1820-1899.
Display Date
1878 Apr. 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.1 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.
The recipient's name is cut off and mostly illegible, but the letter is likely to Perry.
The recipient's name is cut off and mostly illegible, but the letter is likely to Perry.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing whether or not he will attend the Lambeth Conference; expressing concern that England and Russia may be at war in July, and worrying about being in England then since he sympathizes with Russia; hoping that the Lambeth Conference will be postponed for a year.
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