BIB_ID
349870
Accession number
MA 373.118
Creator
Spalding, John Franklin, 1828-1902.
Display Date
1858 Nov. 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.3 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
Telling him that he will probably be leaving Old Town because "the parish have failed to meet their first payment"; explaining that outsiders might help with the payment, and asking whether he should leave anyway because the payment was not punctual; debating whether he will be able to find another situation because he has "no reputation"; asking for Mr. Ransom's advice about what he should do next; discussing his reading; mentioning that Bishop [Horatio] Southgate thinks of going to China.
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