Record ID:
350069
Accession number:
MA 374.14
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.8 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.
Summary:
Discussing a candidate for a Deaconship whom he would like to keep in his Diocese; referring to the difficulties of being the Bishop of a Western Diocese and saying that he has "only four Candidates and each one, with one exception, has asked to be transferred because he could do better elsewhere."
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
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