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Autograph letter signed : Baltimore, to Bishop [William Bacon] Stevens, 1881 Feb. 17.

BIB_ID
351558
Accession number
MA 375.150
Creator
Hale, Charles R. (Charles Reuben), 1837-1900.
Display Date
1881 Feb. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 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 his "Translation of the Order for the Holy Communion, from the Gebetbuch of the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland" (p. 423-435 in the Journal of the General Convention for 1881); noting that he also contributed a translation to the Church Review for Jan. 1881.