Autograph letter signed : North Dakota, to Bishop [William Stevens Perry], [1888] Feb. 27.

Record ID: 
350371
Accession number: 
MA 375.4
Author: 
Walker, William D., 1839-1917.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes: 

On letterhead stationery showing a bishop's mitre with "North Dakota" printed beneath it.
Year is based on Walker's reference to sailing with Perry in MA 375.2 (dated Feb. 16, 1888) and the subsequent references in this letter to sending "passage money" and "crossing the ocean with" Perry.
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: 

Sending him a check for $25 towards his passage money; telling him that he is leaving for Washington but will not be able to stop in Davenport because he has "several matters, in connexion with our Indians, to arrange at Washington which will take much time."

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.