BIB_ID
349354
Accession number
MA 372.82
Creator
Beckwith, John W. (John Watrous), 1831-1890.
Display Date
[1882 Mar.].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (16 p.) ; 31.2 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 manuscript is not dated but its completion is referred to in a previous letter (MA 372.79) which is dated March 8, 1882.
This sketch on the Orphan House at Bethesda, Georgia was included in "The History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883, written by Bishop Perry and published in 1885.
The manuscript is not dated but its completion is referred to in a previous letter (MA 372.79) which is dated March 8, 1882.
This sketch on the Orphan House at Bethesda, Georgia was included in "The History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883, written by Bishop Perry and published in 1885.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Being a history of the Orphan House at Bethesda, Georgia.
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