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ISBN
KMcI 600218
Date
2-18-1860
Keywords
letter, McIlvaine
Recommended Citation
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, "Letter to unknown" (1860). Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters. 48.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/mcilvaine_letters/48
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Cincinnati Feb. 18 /[60]
Dear Sir -
I have just recd your letter of the 14th + herein comply with your request, adding my affectionate hope that your son may have the will of God + the faith of Christ written in his heart by the handwriting of the Spirit, never to be effaced, so that his name be found written in “the Lord’s Book of Life.”
Yours very truly
Chas. P. McIlvaine
Bishop State of Ohio