BIB_ID
349713
Accession number
MA 373.86
Creator
Auer, John Gottlieb, 1832-1874.
Display Date
1873 Mar. 21.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.2 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Recommending that a form be sent to every missionary station to collect statistics; noting that their African mission "makes a poor appearance" in the recent Church Almanac; discussing the logistics of distributing and compiling the forms.
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