BIB_ID
350072
Accession number
MA 374.16
Creator
Gillespie, George DeNormandie, 1819-1909.
Display Date
1879 Nov. 13.
Credit line
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Noting his comments on Griswold College; saying that he is "as you are aware, utterly opposed to Ritualism, but it seems to me unwise to leave such an Institution as Racine in the hands of those who are in sympathy with this movement;" asking for a copy of the Swedish Service as he has one Swedish clergyman.
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