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ABSI - Jesuits in Britain Archives
DC - Deposited Collections
M - The Cause of the English and Welsh Martyrs (Cataloguing in Progress)
1 - Research
1 - Individuals
Repository
Jesuits in Britain Archives
Ref No
ABSI/DC/M/1/1/161
Title
St Robert Southwell SJ
Date
[Late 19th century]-1978
Level
File
Description
File contains:
• Correspondence;
• Note on document in the Valladolid Archives;
• A bundle of documents, largely correspondence, regarding two lost autograph notebooks of Robert Southwell;
• Transcripts of the manuscript books made by Fr Charles Newdigate SJ;
• Biographies;
• References to sources;
• A draft review of book edited by Nancy Pollard in The Month by Patrick Barry;
• An annotated article in The Month entitled 'A New Chapter in the Life of B Robert Southwell SJ';
• Pamphlets;
• An article by Solange Hertz entitled 'St Robert Southwell & What's New?';
• A transcript of Robert Southwell's Devotiones (II);
• An extract from Grene's Collectanea;
• A note on a Southwell relic at Manresa;
• A copy of a letter from Southwell to Fr John Decker SJ in Anglia VII vol I;
• An annotated draft of an article for The Month, likely to have been written by Fr Charles Newdigate SJ entitled 'A New Chapter in the Life of B Robert Southwell SJ';
• An article in The Ransomer;
• An autograph letter of John Dechers SJ to Southwell published by Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu;
• A lightly annotated 5 page biography;
• An extract from 'On the Use of Torture' - Southwell's supplication to the Elizabeth I;
• Notes on persecution in England, 1592, with a 22 page transcript from Stonyhurst Manuscripts;
• Poems transcribed from the Harmsworth and Oscott Manuscripts;
• 'Robert Southwell the Writer' by P Janelle;
• And various transcripts from Anglia.
Physical Description
Most documents have suffered some damage from being in a box that is too small.
Related Material
For archives of The Month, see PU/1.
For correspondence between Fr Clement Tigar SJ and Fr Alfred Thomas SJ, 31 October 1972, see SJ/57/13/306.
Format
Manuscript
Printed document
Typescript
AccessConditions
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to archive material in the Jesuits in Britain Archives.
Language
English
French
Latin
Spanish
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Useful Links
Catholic-Heritage.net
British Jesuit Archive
The Archdiocese of Birmingham
Ushaw College Library
Scottish Catholic Archives
Cathoic Archives Society
The National Archives
The National Records of Scotland
University of Aberdeen
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