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Description
Strong Letterbook no. 87, request to give sermon
Date
12-9-1858
Keywords
letter, McIlvaine, Tail
Recommended Citation
Tail, Bishop M Landon, "Letter to C.P. McIlvaine" (1858). Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters. 258.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/mcilvaine_letters/258
Transcript
Dec. 9/58
My dear Bishop,
My chaplain called upon you today, but you had not returned from Cambridge. I want to [?] a sermon from you, at S[?] fields, for in London Diocesian Home [?], + for the good of working people, so the 11th or 12th of January. May I ask the favor of this from you? The services are held in the evening, and at 8 o’clock, if you are a[ble] + [present] at [?].
Believe me to be
Yours truly,
M. Landon
Rt. Rev. Bishop McIlvaine of Ohio