Item 2021-09-09/180 - Draft Letter to a Bishop

Single-sided, typed, A4. A draft.

Draft letter from probably the Prior to the local Bishop inquiring about confirmations, and stating that Mother Mary Martin has left Glenstal.

The boys have come back—and in greater numbers than I expected. We now have 17 and are full of hope for the future of your Glenstal School. May I ask if it is Your Grace's intention to come up here before long, since some of the boys are not confirmed yet, and Y.G. expressed the wish to perform the sacred rites? I wonder if the season is very suitable—and, of course, I leave all to the judgment and decision of Y.G. Nevertheless, if you intended to come before Christmas, I could venture to suggest a feast day, such as the Immaculate Conception. I also want to notify Y.G. that from the reopening of the school in September, Miss Martin has definitely left Glenstal. As Y.G. suggested in our last conversation, she intended to have her companions trained in public as lay nurses. I remain, dear Lord Archbishop,