Crimean War (1853-1856)

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The file consists of photographs of the Nightingale foundation's celebration in 2006 of the 150th Anniversary of Florence Nightingale's return from the Crimea to England after her work in the Crimean War. The photographs feature Norma Lynch RSM dressed as Mother Clare Moore, Marion McArthy RSM, Patricia Bell RSM, and Alex Attewell, the curator of the Nightingale Museum. The file also contains photographs of Sisters at home celebrating.

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The file consists of a handwritten volume giving an account of the life of Catherine McAuley. The book also contains 238 verses of a poem telling the tale of the Sisters in the Crimea, followed by a brief prose description. “Jesuit Fathers” is again written in verse form.

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...

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Writing on spiritual and practical matters affecting the Bermondsey community. Such matters include the mission to the Crimea 1854-1856, the foundation of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth 1856-1857 (with further correspondence in 1865), the legacy of M. de Sales Eyre RSM, and new foundations. Arranged in 6 folders in chronological order.

Scope and Contents Passport issued by George William Frederick Villiers, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Office, London) allowing passage for "Miss Georgiana Moore (British Subject) accompanied by Miss Margaret Jones, Miss Maria Hudden, Miss Sarah Kelly and Miss Georgiana Barrie going to Constantinople", dated 16 October 1854. (Outsized bound item.) There is also a copy held in the box.Copies of the agreement dated 20 October 1854 made by Bishop Grant with the Secretary of State for...

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The letters from Cardinal Manning mainly refer to the setting up of the Hospital of St Elizabeth, Great Ormond Street, London. Included is a brief summary of a letter, written in M. Clare Moore RSM's hand, to which the Cardinal refers in one of his letter. A letter dated 21 December 1854 gives news from the Crimea as reported to Cardinal Manning by Florence Nightingale.

Scope and Contents note The file consists of letters mainly from Bishops to Reverend Mother or concerning appeals to Rome. The file includes a letter from Reverend Bishop Thomas Grant to the War Department concerning a gift from the Sultan of Turkey to sisters who nursed in the Crimea and the diplomatic niceties of using the gift for the poor; the reply to this letter, both dated December 1856; there are two letters from the Bishop of Liverpool, Doctor Goss dated 1866 and May 1888; two from Archbishop Thomas...

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 consists of letters and articles regarding the sisters who nursed in the Crimea. Three letters are handwritten copies between Mother Bridgeman, Sir John Hall, Inspector of Hospitals and Benjamin Hawes of the War Office concerning Mother Bridgeman's withdrawal from the Crimea dated from 4 April to 19 May 1856. The other seven are a mixture of copies and originals from the sisters to the Reverend Mother, two on the death of Elizabeth Butler RSM and Winefride Sprey RSM; one letter from...

Scope and Contents The file consists of a volume known as the 'Crimea Scrapbook' despite covering a range of topics (presumably because the scrapbook was started as a result of following news coverage of the Crimean War). It is an unbound scrapbook of newspaper articles with illustrations, maps and small pamphlets, mainly pasted onto card. The bundle starts with views of the Crimea; follows Sisters who nursed there to the end of their lives; includes local and international Mercy news, and news of Popes and...