Box BER 09

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A booklet containing envelopes postmarked circa 1862 to 1870, with a few wax seals and stamps, addressed mainly to M. Clare Moore RSM at Bermondsey Convent of Mercy. Some of the envelopes are addressed to Bishop Grant in M. Clare Moore's hand (delivered by hand). The booklet contains two letters written by Bishop Grant to M. Clare Moore RSM from Rome, dated 07 June 1862 and 18 January 1870. Also in the file are envelopes that were not been pasted into the booklet.

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Notes and prose giving spiritual direction to the Sisters. One note, possibly in response to a letter from M. Clare Moore RSM (same paper), is entitled "Retreat 1865". The file also contains notes from the 1861 retreat and the last Pastoral letter from Bishop Grant written in May 1870. Other items are undated and include notes on the Garden of Eden, Fr Faber, Coleridge, and Brighton line [?]. A cover sheet made by the Sisters reads "Writing of our Venerated Bishop".

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Three letters from M. Elizabeth Rigby RSM, Abingdon, with Bishop Grant's response in pencil written on the reverse [and presumably sent to M. Clare Moore RSM].

Scope and Contents The file consists of letters sent to Bermondsey community's Reverend Mother from Bishop James Danell, Bishop Peter Amigo, Archbishop Cyril Cowderoy, Bishop John Peter Jukes O.F.M.Conv. and others at Archbishop's House, arranged chronologically. Includes a proposal by Southwark Sisters of Mercy to bring together all Southwark convents under a Provincial Government, as submitted to Bishop James Danell (pencil annotation dates the item at 1876); Papal and Diocesan certificates in Latin, dated...

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Typed and handwritten copies of visitation report for 1926 to Bermondsey, branch houses and schools, carried out by John Fletcher as representing the Bishop of Southwark. "Notes on the Visitation of the Convent of Mercy, Bermondsey" dated 1929 and 1930 and carried out by Charles H. Collins. 1931 visitation reports for St Vincent's, Whitstable and St Mary's, Eltham by Charles H. Collins.

Scope and Contents Three letters from Bishop of Cork John Murphy, 1841-1842. Copy of a letter from the Bishop of Roseau (Dominica, West Indies) dated 1849, passed to the Sisters by the Bishop of Southwark. Two letters from Bishop of Birmingham William Ullathorne, 1865 and 1883, one to the Rev. Mother at Kinsale regarding Derby, and the other containing a memorandum of an agreement between Bermondsey and Hunslet Convents of Mercy on dowries. An agreement on the responsibilities of William, Bishop of Hexham to...

Scope and Contents A correspondence file consisting, in the main, of letters from many different priests and religious brothers connected in some way to the Bermondsey community. Main topics in the letters are: the Crimea 1854-1856; the Hospital of St Elizabeth at Great Ormond Street, London, 1856; founding a convent at Abingdon 1859-1871; founding a convent in Dartford, 1869; founding a convent at Kingston, Jamaica, 1890-1894; correspondence from Ecclesiastical Confessors 1930s-1940s; Second World War...

Scope and Contents note The file contains letters from important benefactors to the Mercy community. A letter dated 05 August 1840 addressed to Fr Peter Butler from Lord Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, gives a financial gift. Two letters from Edward Bellasis give a yearly £5 from the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1854. Three letters from Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, regarding the founding of a hospital on Great Ormond Street, London. Letters from Sir George Bowyer to Reverend Mother and Bishop Grant concerning the...