BIB_ID
349373
Accession number
MA 372.83
Creator
Whittle, Francis McNeece, 1823-1902.
Display Date
1866 Aug. 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 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.
With a signed note, written as a postscript to this letter, from Bishop Smith to the "Rt. Rev. Presiding Bishop" [Bishop Hopkins], saying that he "cannot present this plea better than in the words of him who makes it."
With a signed note, written as a postscript to this letter, from Bishop Smith to the "Rt. Rev. Presiding Bishop" [Bishop Hopkins], saying that he "cannot present this plea better than in the words of him who makes it."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Requesting that St. Paul's Church be the place of consecration for Dr. [George David] Cummin's consecration instead of Christ Church.
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