BIB_ID
350346
Accession number
MA 375.3
Creator
Walker, William D., 1839-1917.
Display Date
1888 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
On letterhead stationery from the Murray Hill Hotel, New York.
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.
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
Regretfully declining Perry's invitation to visit him in Iowa on his way to North Dakota; discussing some pictures they ordered; commenting on a meeting in Albany; praising Bishop [Henry C.] Potter's sermon as "a strong, convincing, and ... positively eloquent argument for the Cathedral in America"; going on at length about what a wonderful orator Potter was.
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