| 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 |