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Chase asks the Bishop of Salisbury to review accompanying documents. He also assures him of his nephew's health and wellbeing as a student at Kenyon College.
Date
6-6-1829
Keywords
Lord Bishop of Salisbury, nephew
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Lord Bishop of Salisbury" (1829). Philander Chase Letters. 794.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/794
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Philadelphia June 6. 1829.
Very Dear Lord Bishop of Salisbury
I beg leave to send for your Lordship’s inspection, the printed papers which accompany this: and with them the assurance of my own perfect health and, when I left Ohio about three weeks ago, that of your nephew at Kenyon College. No doubt this worthy relative of your Lordship’s has communicated from time to time much more & minuter intelligence concerning our Institution, than I can: but one thing he could not have described sufficiently, the feelings of esteem and gratitude with which I have the honour to be
Your Lordships
most faithful Friend
& sert.
Philander Chase