BIB_ID
350011
Accession number
MA 373.167
Display Date
1879 Feb. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27 cm
Notes
Followed by a copy of the document without the signatures.
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.
Signed by Henry V. Ogden, John Francis Girault, and John Percival.
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.
Signed by Henry V. Ogden, John Francis Girault, and John Percival.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Selecting John Henry Ducachet Wingfield to be Bishop of Northern California. With Perry's autograph note in the lower right corner: "Consent given Feb. 28 79 / W.S. Perry."
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