FILING CABINET 009:
DRAWER TWO: SPENCER PAPERS
FILE SEVEN: MONTEITH FAMILY: MEMORIAL CROSS:
Letter, 22 August [1928] from A. Monteith, SCJ, Convent of the Sacred Heart, St Charles’ Square, London W. 10 to ‘Revd Father’. Says Fr Ignatius Spencer was a great friend of her grandfather, Robert Monteith of Carstairs. Says she has a sister in the Sacred Heart convent at Newcastle.
Letter, 27 August [1928 according to Fr Urban Young] from Mother ??, SCJ??, A. Monteith, Convent of the Sacred Heart, St Charles’ Square, London, W10 to “Dear Reverend Father” about Carstairs House and the Memorial Cross her grandfather, Robert Monteith, erected.
Letter, John Bree, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, 26 January 1931 to Father Urban [Young]. Says his wife’s father was Charles Petrolini. He was a sculptor, a carver and an artist. He carved the monument erected to Father Ignatius Spencer at the spot on the Monteith estate where he died. Sends a photo of the drawing of the Memorial when he had completed it; as well as two other photos of paintings he did - one of the Passionist settlement at the Hyde (1849-1858) and one of a little place contiguous to the Passionist house at the Hyde. Charles Petrolini had wanted to be a Passionist but did not enter actually enter.
See FILING CABINET 009: DRAWER TWO: SPENCER PAPERS: FILE ONE: FATHER IGNATIUS SPENCER: VARIA: FOLDER ONE: 4. A photograph of the original sketch for the Memorial Cross to mark the spot where Father Ignatius Spencer died.
See also Archives, Sisters of the Cross and Passion for Sister Veronica Petrolini from London, who knew Fr Ignatius Spencer, died in Sutton and is buried there in St Anne’s cemetery
Handwritten notes on the Monteith family taken from Eleanor Leslie by J.M. Stone. Says Monteith’s father was a Glasgow merchant. Went to Cambridge where he knew Tennyson. Also a friend of Mr Hope Scott.
