BIB_ID
351549
Accession number
MA 375.144
Creator
Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893.
Display Date
"Tuesday evening" [18--?].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 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
Thanking him for his "kind invitation to fill Dr. Howe's place tomorrow," but explaining that he will not be able to give a sermon because he has "nothing at all approaching the degree of appropriateness necessary for such an occasion."
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