BIB_ID
349348
Accession number
MA 372.79
Creator
Beckwith, John W. (John Watrous), 1831-1890.
Display Date
1882 Mar. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.8 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.
The letter refers to the sketch written by Bishop Beckwith on the Orphan House at Bethesda; the sketch was included in Bishop's Perry's 'History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883' published in 1885.
The recipient is not identified from the salutation, but inferred from the contents of the letter.
Written on stationery from "160 S. Pryor St., / Atlanta, Ga."
The letter refers to the sketch written by Bishop Beckwith on the Orphan House at Bethesda; the sketch was included in Bishop's Perry's 'History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883' published in 1885.
The recipient is not identified from the salutation, but inferred from the contents of the letter.
Written on stationery from "160 S. Pryor St., / Atlanta, Ga."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying he has "tried to make something like a connected narrative out of the scanty materials at my disposal without [illegible] the story with unnecessary statistics;" saying he is uncertain if he has "done as you wished me to do--Let me know, & if I can still add anything, I will do it;" adding, in a postscript, that he added a note at the end of his paper providing the names of those who helped supply him materials which he would like included in the publication.
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