BIB_ID
349568
Accession number
MA 372.129
Creator
Morris, Benjamin Wistar, 1819-1906.
Display Date
1872 Oct. 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.4 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.
Written on the letterhead of the "Oregon and Washington Mission, / Portland, Oregon."
Written on the letterhead of the "Oregon and Washington Mission, / Portland, Oregon."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying that "Oregon is too far away to allow of my being present at the approaching meeting of the House of Bishops."
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