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ABSI - Jesuits in Britain Archives
SA - South Africa
1 - St Aidan's College
1 - Foundation
Repository
Jesuits in Britain Archives
Ref No
ABSI/SA/1/1/2
Title
Papers on the foundation and early history of St Aidan's
Date
1875-c 1910
Level
File
Description
3 hand-drawn plans of the college and grounds [nd]; notes on the Dutch Mission [nd, possibly incomplete]; newspaper cutting from the Port Elizabeth Telegraph and the Eastern Province Standard, 5 Jan 1875, reporting on 'Great Meeting of Roman Catholics' on the occasion of Bishop Ricards leaving for Europe; photocopy of article from the Eastern Star, 23 Nov 1885, on opening of St Mary's Catholic School-Chapel; 'Roach' & St Aidan's Loan account [c 1910] and notes on the foreign mission fund of the English Province; manuscript notes on St Aidan's with a cutting from the St Aidan's Record [c 1900]; page of notes by Fr R[ichard] Sykes SJ on St Aidan's finances [nd]; religious census of Cape Colony [nd]; copy of 1876 timeline detailing first two weeks of the College's operation.
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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