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Autograph letter signed : Benicia, Calif., to the Bishop of Iowa [William Stevens Perry], 1886 Jan. 28.

BIB_ID
350019
Accession number
MA 373.170
Creator
Wingfield, John Henry Ducachet, 1833-1898.
Display Date
1886 Jan. 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.8 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 a letterhead stamp at the top of the page, and with a fragment of a printed list on the verso giving prices and required items for St. Augustine's College in Benicia.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning the transfer of a clergyman from Iowa to California.