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ABSI - Jesuits in Britain Archives
SA - South Africa
1 - St Aidan's College
5 - Closure of St Aidan's
Repository
Jesuits in Britain Archives
Ref No
ABSI/SA/1/5/1
Title
Early correspondence regarding closure
Date
c 1931-1948
Level
File
Description
Includes: report entitled 'Proposed Closing Down of St Aidan's College - Grahamstown' setting out arguments for and against [no author or date]; notes of Fr Philip Beisly (Superior), 1947; letters of Fr Henry Townsend SJ, Fr Edward Smithies SJ, Fr Edward Enright SJ and Fr Bernard Whiteside SJ (Rector) to Father Provincial [Martin D'Arcy SJ], 1947-1948; typescript entitled 'The Closing down of St Aidan's College' written by an old Aidanite [no author or date; notes on St Aidan's financial position, 1944; visitation notes of Fr Aston Chichester, c 1931.
AccessConditions
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to archive material in the Jesuits in Britain Archives.
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