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Strong Letterbook no. 87, request to give sermon

Date

12-9-1858

Keywords

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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

Letter to C.P. McIlvaine

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