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Autograph letter signed : Chester, Illinois, to Mr. G.L. Crocker [?], "Whitsunday Monday" 1886.

BIB_ID
350757
Accession number
MA 374.108
Creator
Seymour, George F. (George Franklin), 1829-1906.
Display Date
"Whitsunday Monday" 1886.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.7 cm
Notes
Mr. Crocker was the Secretary to the Bishop Boone Missionary Society in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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
Thanking the Bishop Boone Missionary Society for naming him their annual preacher; declining due to pressing duties.