Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Quincy, Illinois, to the Bishop of Iowa, 1879 Feb. 19.

BIB_ID
350480
Accession number
MA 374.77
Creator
Burgess, Alexander, 1819-1901.
Display Date
1879 Feb. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.9 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
Telling him he will be visiting the Parish at Rock Island on the 2nd Sunday in Lent and hopes to see him; discussing, in a lengthy postscript on the verso, specific Canons that apply to the remission of a deposition when the deposition was pronounced by a predecessor; asking him to "[illegible] the subject through before you act finally, so that your decision may not be fairly disputed."