BIB_ID
351540
Accession number
MA 375.141
Creator
Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893.
Display Date
1881 July 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
On letterhead stationery.
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.
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 him for inviting him to "take part in the Centennial History of the American Church," but telling him that he will "have no time to give to any such extra work during the coming autumn."
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