Crimean War (1853-1856)

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Mainly photocopies of newspaper articles with some articles by Sisters, including a short biography of M. Gonzaga Barrie RSM written circa 2000 (computer printout).

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Includes articles on the presentation of the Royal Red Cross to Sisters of Mercy, and on the deaths of Sisters. The link between the Hospital and the Crimean War (the Hospital was opened by Sisters of Mercy who had nursed in the Crimea) is made in some of the articles.

Scope and Contents note The dissertation was "Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy", Indiana, USA, June 1962.Correspondence later gifted to the Institute of Our Lady of Mercy Archives by the Southwark Diocesan Archives explains why a copy of the dissertation arrived in the collection. Writing from Chislehurst 1953 to 1955, M. Scholastica Harkins RSM asked for copies of letters held in Southwark...

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Sections: "Gleanings - Catholic Church in England in the early Nineteenth Century" about why the convent was founded and subsequent major events; "Reverend Mother Camillus" with a Jamaican scene; "Death of Reverend Mother McAuley"; "Crimea War 1954". The play seems to have been acted at St Anne's, Orpington.

Scope and Contents note Two copies of a long narrative poem dedicated to "Mother M. Francis, Sisters M. Joseph and Clare" for their work in the Crimean hospitals 1854-1856. The full title of the poem is "Lines on The Eastern Mission of The Sisters of Mercy from October 1854 to April 1856". M. Francis Bridgeman RSM was Reverend Mother of Kinsale Convent of Mercy, Ireland, in 1856 and Derby was founded from Kinsale in 1849, which is why the three Kinsale Sisters visited Derby on their way back to Ireland from the...

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Poem tracing the founding of "The hospital home for incurables" in Great Ormond Street, London, via the arrival of the Foundress, the Crimea, the poverty in London witnessed by Cardinal Wiseman, ending at length with M. Clare Moore RSM assisting the Sisters from Heaven.

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Handwritten poem by an unknown Sister of Mercy. M. Francis Bridgeman RSM returned to Kinsale, Ireland, after nursing in the Crimean War (1853-1856) via Derby, England. Possibly a copy of an original poem.

Scope and Contents note A member of the Crimean War Research Society, David Williams met Marion McCarthy RSM at the National Army Museum and kindly assisted her by researching whether the graves of M. Winifred Spry RSM and M. Elizabeth Butler RSM (from Liverpool) were still extant in Balaclava, where they died in 1855 and 1856. The file includes photographs of his trip to the Crimea in 2005, lists of graves in the Crimea and Scutari as of 1873, a medal of 89th Regiment of Foot and some regimental details, a...

Scope and Contents note A copy of The Times in which, on 13th October, page 8, column 4, a description of the French medical arrangements mentions the Sisters of Charity nursing in the Crimea.Quote from an article entitled 'William Howard Russell and the Crimean War' by Eamon Dyas (group records manager) from Times Online dated 19 October 2004:"Thomas Chenery wrote from Constantinople on September 30, 1854, the report appearing in the paper on October 12...On the October 13, Chenery again...