BIB_ID
350936
Accession number
MA 374.116
Creator
Seymour, George F. (George Franklin), 1829-1906.
Display Date
1892 July 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.2 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.
The identity of the recipient is from the final 3 pages of the letter (MA 374.110).
The letter is in reference to the consecration of Charles Reuben Hale as Assistant Bishop of Springfield on July 26, 1892 with the title of the Bishop of Cairo.
This fragment contains the first 4 pages of the letter; the remaining 3 pages were bound earlier in the collection and are cataloged separately as MA 374.110.
The identity of the recipient is from the final 3 pages of the letter (MA 374.110).
The letter is in reference to the consecration of Charles Reuben Hale as Assistant Bishop of Springfield on July 26, 1892 with the title of the Bishop of Cairo.
This fragment contains the first 4 pages of the letter; the remaining 3 pages were bound earlier in the collection and are cataloged separately as MA 374.110.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Detailing three resolutions concerning the position and title of the Assistant Bishop of Springfield.
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