BIB_ID
349808
Accession number
MA 373.110
Creator
Lyman, Theodore B. (Theodore Benedict), 1815-1893.
Display Date
1867 Apr. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.6 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
Discussing the "American Chaplaincy, in connection with the Anglo-American Church," in Paris; saying that he finds his objections to taking the position "overruled"; reporting that he feels "impelled to bow [his] own judgment to so urgent an appeal"; accepting the position and negotiating when he will start.
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