BIB_ID
351160
Accession number
MA 375.95
Creator
Knight, Cyrus F., 1831-1891.
Display Date
1889 July 16.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.2 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.
Stamped in the upper left corner: "The Domestic & Foreign Missionary Society / Prot. Epis. Church / Jul 18 1889 / 21 to 26 Bible House, New York City."
Stamped in the upper left corner: "The Domestic & Foreign Missionary Society / Prot. Epis. Church / Jul 18 1889 / 21 to 26 Bible House, New York City."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Explaining that Langford probably did not receive his last letter because a mail car was destroyed; discussing stipends and the work done by missionaries for the Diocese of Milwaukee.
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