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- 1800 - 1990 (Creation)
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ST WILFRID’S RETREAT, COTTON HALL, 1850 - 1858
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SHELF THREE OR FOUR:
BOX ONE:
ADMINISTRATION:
Book of General Administration, St Wilfrid’s Retreat, 1850-1854
Book of General Administration, St Wilfrid’s Retreat, 1854-1858 and St Joseph’s, Highgate, 1859-1869
MASS BOOK:
Mass Book (Church of St Wilfrid), 1850 - 1851
MISSIONS AND RETREATS:
Mission Book, St Wilfrid’s, Cotton, 1851. Includes a List of Parishioners in the writing of Blessed Charles Houben of Mt Argus
OTHER ITEMS:
A hard-backed exercise-book with pages of writing in Italian in what appears to be the writing of Blessed Dominic Barberi about the history of Catholicism in England and the coming of the Passionists to England, with footnotes; and also copies of correspondence between Lord Shrewsbury, 5 March 1854 and Father Raphael Gorga CP, Rector of St Wilfrid’s; and T.W. Allies and Fr Raphael, 1854, about the schools.
Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, article on Cotton Hall, Students’ Preachers of the Passion, vol.6, 1957.
Fr Ignatius McElligott CP, In Diebus Illis, July 1992, referring to his article in Recusant History, May 1992 on the correspondence between J.D. Dalgairns (L’Univers, 13 April 1841) and Blessed Dominic.
Fr Ignatius McGelligott CP, A Note on the placement of archival materials about foundations.
Fr Ignatius McGelligott CP, Typed Notes on Cotton Hall, 13 February 1998. NB At the end of these notes is an addendum on the Passionists from St Joseph’s Province who served in Bulgaria from 1870.
A slide of Father Austin Edgar’s grave and headstone
BOX TWO:
A large brown envelope containing a bundle of letters, 1855-1856 about the Passionists’ leaving Cotton Hall.
Two copies of an address given at Highgate, 20 May 1971 with notes on the back by Fr Ignatius McGelligott CP about the Cotton Hall correspondence.
Cotton College Archives: typed copies of letters from the Cotton Archives written to or from the Passionists, 1856-1927
A large brown envelope containing:
1) Statement written by Fr Raphael Gorga CP of the terms on which the Passionists took Cotton Hall in 1854, as regarded the earl of Shrewsbuury and the school.
2) Statement of the terms on which the Passionists took Cotton Hall in 1851 from the Oratorians.
3) A letter from J.D. Dalgairns, Oratorian Priest, to Revd Father. Latin. No date.
A large brown envelope containing:
1) A typed extract from the Annals of St Wilfrid’s College, Cotton. No date.
2) A note, in the Fr Sylvester Palmer’s writing, on an article in the Cross, January 1912 on Cotton Hall.
3) Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, Notes on St Wilfrid’s Retreat, Cotton Hall. Undated.
4) Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, More notes on St Wilfrid’s retreat. Undated.
5) F.G. Roberts, The Church and Parish of St Wilfrid, Cotton, 1958
A large brown envelope containing:
1) Two pictures of Cotton Hall
2) A photograph album of views of Cotton College
A sheet advertising the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of St Wilfrid’s, Cotton, 1998
An invitation to attend the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of St Wilfrid’s, Cotton, 14 June 1998, showing the Pugin window.
Two copies of a Newsletter, Friends of Cardinal Newman, Summer 1991, with an article on St Wilfrid’s, Cotton.
Fr Ignatius McGelligott CP, History of Cotton Hall, 13 February 1998 NB It has an addendum on Bulgaria.
Alton Towers, Guide Book and postcards, 1966
S.J. Gosling, Church of St John the Baptist, Alton, undated