BIB_ID
349816
Accession number
MA 373.113
Creator
Lyman, Theodore B. (Theodore Benedict), 1815-1893.
Display Date
1872 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 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
Apologizing for the trouble his mistake caused Perry; emphasizing that it never occurred to him that the volume he asked Perry to send would be too heavy for the mail; asking him to send it to a book store in New York so it can be forwarded to him with other books.
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