BIB_ID
350520
Accession number
MA 375.18
Creator
Boone, William Jones, 1811-1864.
Display Date
1880 Mar. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 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
Describing a trip by boat to Shanghai; commenting on his inability to get a "reduction at the French mail office"; discussing a voyage which Mr. Hoyt proposes to take; telling him he will try to send his packet of visiting cards; mentioning the "sudden death of Mrs. Davenport by apoplexy.
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