Box 69 Bermondsey

Scope and Contents The file consists of part of a rough exercise book. The cover is missing and it is possible that the first few pages may be missing too. The heading on the first page still in existence, is 'Album, Rev. Mother Mary Helen Ellis'. The book includes a short but detailed biography of Helen Ellis RSM who was in the second party of sisters from Bermondsey to go to the Crimea, and returned to be one of the party of founding sisters for Great Ormond Street Hospital. It gives the names of all the...