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Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to the Bishop of Iowa [William Stevens Perry], 1881 Sept. 20.

BIB_ID
351290
Accession number
MA 375.115
Creator
Davies, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1831-1905.
Display Date
1881 Sept. 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 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 "fine likeness of an old missionary" that he recently inherited, and wondering if the man depicted, Rev. Thomas Davies of Litchfield, Conn., should be included in Perry's volume.