BIB_ID
349570
Accession number
MA 372.130
Creator
Morris, Benjamin Wistar, 1819-1906.
Display Date
1874 Jan. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.9 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
Suggesting a possible reprinting of "Mr. Wesley's Prayer Book;" saying "it will be a great pity for the knowledge of that book to die out, as it will be apt to do in another generation, unless it is kept alive by a reprint, and wide circulation."
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