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Autograph letter signed : Chicago, Illinois, to the Bishop of Iowa, 1879 July 11.

BIB_ID
350955
Accession number
MA 374.118
Creator
Harris, Samuel Smith, 1841-1888.
Display Date
1879 July 11.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 16.6 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 "St. James Church, / Chicago."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his kind letter; saying that he does not yet know the date or location of his consecration but suggests it may be in mid-September in Detroit.