Autograph Letter Signed.
The first Episcopal Bishop of Washington (1896-1908) is best known for obtaining the land and getting constructed the Washington National Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul). Item #46723
ALS, 3pp, 5" X 8", Washington, DC, 1900 November 30. Addressed to Colonel Richard Lathers (1821-1903, prominent Charleston and later New York commission merchant, banker, diplomat, insurance and railroad executive). Near fine. On letterhead bearing a printed purple bishop's hat crest, Satterlee submits an article. In part: "What must you have thought of my long delay in sending you the enclosed article? It was written some time ago... I was wondering day after day, whether... the address had been correctly written on the envelope; when suddenly my own letter to you was handed me this morning. It had been found beneath a pile of answered letters! I am sure the article is much too long... you can judge then what parts to leave out, in order to reduce its length from about 1500 words to five or six hundred words or whatever length you think best... I cry you peccavi [I have sinned], and I shall be distressed if I have put you to inconvenience. With love 'from house to house' as the Germans say...." What article Satterlee would be submitting to Lathers for editing is completely unknown. In 1899, in the "Journal of the Proceedings of the Thirty-first Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Albany," Satterlee is listed as the "Missionary in Charge" and Lathers the "Warden" for the Church of All Angels in Haines Falls, Greene County -- Satterlee officiated there in the summer, for he owned a cottage nearby. Perhaps Lathers was in charge of compiling some printed piece for his church, to which Satterlee was contributing some article. (Interestingly, in "This Discursive Sketch of Colonel Richard Lathers" published by the South Carolina Historical Society in 1902, in discussing a speech Satterlee was to give upon the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, he refers to the bishop as "our distinguished fellow-cottager.") A most interesting item, in any case.
Price: $150.00