Documento 1/4/1/2 - Letters from America, Australia, Canada and India.

99 pages.

Includes; letters from Aberdeen, South Dakota dated 10 January 1925 mentioning that a brief sketch of South Dakota is included; two cards from 281 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco dated 22 December 1925 and 3 April 1926 including a list of Presentation Convents in the States; Mount Loretto, Dubuque, Iowa dated 14 January 1926; 419 West 33rd Street, New York, dated 9 February 1926; Langdon, North Dakota, dated 3 October 1926. These letters express an interest in purchasing the book on Nano Nagle and in furthering her cause.
Three letters from Newfoundland dated 23 December 1925, 3 January 1926 and 30 January 1926, all are expressing interest in purchasing the book and giving details of the foundations and schools.
Letters from New Windsor, Australia including a photograph of the convent and detailed handwritten sketch of the foundation, giving the history of the convent, letter from Yeppoon, Australia dated 1 April 1936, three letters from Elsternwick dated 25 December 1925, 13 January 1926 and 31 January 1926, giving details of the amalgamation of the Order and the General Chapters, the number of Sisters and the number of pupils, and requesting for vocations, detailed account of the foundation in Mount Erin, Wagga Wagga, and the spread of the mission to many other places, details of the schools, the examinations and extra- curricular activities.
Letters from England, including Manchester dated 19 November 1925 giving the history of the foundation and looking for postulants, letter from Liverpool dated 5 March 1926 and from Pickering, York's, dated 18 December 1925 in which it states that the Catholic population is very small and very poor.
Letters from India, including the convent in Quetta, Baluchistan, dated 13 January 1926, which includes photographs of the convent and a typed article entitled ‘The Irish Presentation Nuns n Baluchistan’, the letter gives details of the building of the convent and that they have the bones of Nano Nagle, letter from Pudapet, Madras, South India dated 29 July 1926, mentioning how poor the students are, the school of commerce including a typewritten account of St. Anthony’s Presentation Convent, Pudapet; letter from Murree, Punjab, dated 10 March 1926, giving details of their convents and asking for postulants for the mission.