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Blomfield family - Richard Best Blomfield - correspondence, 193--1995, mainly with Blomfield and related families concerning his genealogical research

The collection comprises material collected by the Friends of the Monastery Stroud, including its own records and those of other organisations and individuals connected with the Monastery. Included are administrative records, correspondence, photographs, newscuttings, objects, printed material, DVDs and sound recordings. Much of the material in this collection was assembled following appeals by the Friends for contributions, resulting in the duplication of many items. The separate provenances have, for the most part, been retained. 

MLMSS 9662

BOX 1
Friends of the Monastery Stroud records including legal documents, rules, correspondence, minutes, policies and procedures, 2000-2008

Friends of the Monastery Stroud records including correspondence, reminiscences of visitors, photographs, leaflets, newsletters, newscuttings, 1988-2014

Friends of the Monastery Stroud records including program for its official launch on 30 October 2004, correspondence, project plans and notes, photographs, ca. 2004-2010

Friends of the Monastery Stroud Management Committee records including correspondence, grant applications and submissions, 2010-2012

Society of St Francis Association records including rules, minutes, memoranda, building plans, newsletters, 1993-2008

Papers relating to the Society of St Francis Association and its trusteeship of the property at Stroud, including correspondence, photographs, newscuttings, 1975-2013

BOX 2
‘Material from Freeland concerning the settlements of the Sisters of St Clare in the Diocese of Newcastle 1973-1976’, being largely correspondence between members of St Mary’s Convent at Freeland, Oxford, England, and the Right Reverend Ian Shevill, Bishop of Newcastle

Community of St Clare, Stroud, visitors books, 1975-1985, 1980-1998, 1998-2000

‘Mass Register for the Community of St Clare, The Rectory, Stroud’, 1975, 1980

Papers relating to the Sisters of St Clare including liturgies, ca. 1992-1996

BOX 3
Personal papers of Sister Angela, originally housed in box file,  including Certificate of Proficiency in Bookkeeping, 1944; exercise books (3), one labelled ‘Clothing Retreat Notes’, containing sermons with interleaved notes, obituary and order of service for the funeral of her father, Fritz Solling, in 1986; photographic prints and negatives, ca. 1940-1990; newscuttings, 1953, no date

Colour and black & white photographs, some mounted on card, of Sister Angela’s art works, ca. 1949-1990

Photograph album, ‘being a record of the Rectory & then the building of the Monastery’ written on cover, created by Sister Angela

Photographic slides (29) including views of the Rectory, other buildings in Stroud and surrounding areas, ca. 1975-1981

Papers relating to Sister Angela including order of service for her funeral; obituaries and other newscuttings; transcript of Radio National program ‘Sister Angela’s ashes’; copy of S.C.E.G.G.S. Moss Vale school roll and photograph of sculpture ‘Thanksgiving’ at the school; synopsis and reviews of ‘Sculptor of spirit: the story of Angela of Stroud’ by Faith Reid, 1994-2012

Copy of Sister Angela’s book ‘I too have cancer’, [1987]

BOX 4
Papers collected by Kevin and Pauline Osmond relating to the building of the monastery including photographs, newscuttings and a copy of Earth Garden No. 29 February-April 1981, containing an article entitled ‘The mudbrick monastery’, 1979-2013

Hand drawn ‘Certificate of merit, 2000th mud brick’, 1976

Papers relating to the Muddies Reunion 22-24 November 2013 including booking forms, programs, memoirs and report, 2013
 
‘Memoirs and messages’ folder containing reminiscences of visitors and members of the monastery, with correspondence, photographs, transcript of ‘Sister Angela’s ashes’ Radio National show, artwork for plaques, newsletters, leaflets, newscuttings, 1991-2013

‘Angela’s art’ scrapbook compiled by Rosemary Christmas for the Muddies Reunion containing photographs with excerpts from Faith Reid’s book, ca. 1952-2013

Photographs displayed at the Muddies Reunion, ca. 1980-2013

BOX 5
Tourist information and guides to Stroud and the Monastery

Items from Monastery shop: booklets entitled ‘To thine own self be true’, ‘No time to pray?’, ‘Saint Clare of Assisi’, ‘Mercy not sacrifice’, ‘Songs of praise’; laminated card; 2 wooden holding crosses

2 wooden holding cross badges, palm cross

Mud brick souvenir of the opening of the monastery stamped ‘Community of St. Clare, Stroud, 1980’

Printed material, being books containing references to Sister Angela or the Order of St Clare: 
Dream saga and other poems / Caroline Glyn, 1961
In him was life / Caroline Glyn, 1975
The Muddies manual on mudbrick construction / compiled by Christopher Nash, [198-]
Proclaiming ‘unsearchable riches’: Newcastle and the minority Evangelical Anglicans, 1788-1900 / Paul Struan Robertson, 1996
Francis de Witt Batty, the bishop, the leader, the man / edited by Joan Murray, 1996
Flying changes: horses as spiritual teachers / Carter Heyward, 2005
Living the journey: everyday heroes tell their story / Bridget McKern, 2007
Remembering Saint John’s College Morpeth 1926-2006 / editorial committee Sheila Bourne and others, 2007 
Sculptor of spirit: the story of Angela of Stroud / Faith Reid, 1st edition 2011, reprint 2012

Electronic format material: DVD labelled ‘Sr Angela’s video, 1979-1980 only, Community of St Clare Stroud’ about the building of the monastery; DVD labelled ‘The blessing of Gunya Chiara 20/7/97’; DVD labelled ‘Bird calls at Stroud Monastery’

BOX 6X
‘Building Stroud Monastery’ scrapbook with painted cover, containing scanned copies of pages of Sister Angela’s photograph album, with other photographs and writings interleaved

Scrapbook containing original, scanned and photocopied photographs, newscuttings, extracts from visitors book and other material relating to the Monastery, ca. 1976-2012 

MLOH 773

Sound cassettes:
 
MLOH 773/1
Female Perception of Min[i]stry, Sister Angela, CSC

MLOH 773/2
Caroline Jones speaks with Margaret Gerard, recorded and broadcast 1988

MLOH 773/3
Sister Angela discussion group re Clare (90 minutes)

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Sister Angela meditations, God Bearer (90 minutes)

MLOH 773/5
Sister Angela at Conference (60 minutes)

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Angela to Jane, December 1993 (60 minutes)

MLOH 773/7
Angela speaking to Sister Jane, July 1993, ‘The Pearl’ (90 minutes) 

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Sister Angela musing on future of Stroud, 1994 (90 minutes)

MLOH 773/9
Jane with love from Angela, Angela’s report re the future, 1996 

MLOH 773/10
Angela’s story for book with Min Mia (90 minutes)

MLOH 773/11
A Meeting with Remarkable Woman, Sister Angela Solling, September 1997

Papers relating to the Monastery at Stroud, ca. 1940-2014

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