BIB_ID
350732
Accession number
MA 374.100
Creator
Peterkin, Geo. W. (George William), 1841-1916.
Display Date
1889 Oct. 14.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.8 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.
Written on the stationery of the "Murray Hill Hotel / 40th to 41st Sts, Park Avenue, New York."
Written on the stationery of the "Murray Hill Hotel / 40th to 41st Sts, Park Avenue, New York."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Asking to be excused from attendance at a session of the House [of Bishops]; saying that his cousin died suddenly in his hotel room and he was there now with his remains and would take the body to Baltimore; saying he would be back "in my place on Wed. morning."
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