BIB_ID
349862
Accession number
MA 372.185
Creator
Biddle, James Stokes, 1818-1900.
Display Date
1886 July 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.6 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.
With the notice of election, on the verso, signed by the Rev. John A. Childs, Secretary of the Convention of the P.E. Church, in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
With the notice of election, on the verso, signed by the Rev. John A. Childs, Secretary of the Convention of the P.E. Church, in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Giving notice of the election of the Rt. Rev. Ozi W. Whitaker to be the Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania; asking for his consent.
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