BIB_ID
350750
Accession number
MA 374.106
Creator
Seymour, George F. (George Franklin), 1829-1906.
Display Date
1886 Mar. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.3 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
Discussing a proposed visit to Davenport to preach in his Cathedral; asking if he might help fund his work "among colored people in Cairo;" adding that he is "like Midas; touch something for me that it may become gold."
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