Correspondence and documents, 1862-1869

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Most of the letters and documents filmed on this reel were sent to either Abbot Henry Gregory or Father Thomas Heptonstall. Gregory was stationed at Stanbrook Abbey, Worcestershire, in 1861-1862, Bullingham in 1862-1863 and Broxwood, Herefordshire, from 1863 until his death in 1877. Heptonstall, who was also stationed at Stanbrook, became the Abbot of St Edmundsbury in 1862 and died in 1869. Nearly all the letters relate to Australia and are listed below. There are also a few letters relating to Roger Bede Vaughan, who became prior of Belmont Priory in Herefordshire in 1861 and remained there until his appointment as coadjutor bishop of Sydney in 1873.

The principal correspondent is Archbishop Bede Polding, who wrote to Gregory almost every month and less frequently to Heptonstall. There are also some letters from the Spanish Benedictine monk Rosendo Salvado (1814-1900) who founded the Aboriginal mission at New Norcia, Western Australia, in 1846. He was made bishop of Port Essington in 1849 and became abbot of New Norcia, with a diocese attached, in 1867.

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