BIB_ID
349417
Accession number
MA 372.99
Creator
Bissell, William Henry Augustus, 1814-1893.
Display Date
1869 June 25.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying that his ancestors are purely English, with perhaps a "German strain.....too far back to take account of. I cannot therefore claim a place in your list of illustrious Germans."
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