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Autograph letter signed : Providence, to David Trimble [?], 1851 Aug. 27.

BIB_ID
347967
Accession number
MA 368.76
Creator
Henshaw, J. P. K. (John Prentiss Kewley), 1792-1852.
Display Date
1851 Aug. 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.0 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.
The surname of the recipient is unclear; it is possibly Trimble.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Introducing him to "my young friend, Wm. S. Perry, who has lately entered as Freshman in Harvard."