Letter to Fr John Walford SJ from Dr John Henry Newman
- IE IJA S/16
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- 24 August 1867
Part of Irish Jesuit Special Collections
Letter from Dr John Henry Newman (founder of the Oratorian Congregation at Edgbaston, Birmingham, from where the letter was written) to Fr John Walford SJ, congratulating him on ‘having fixed’ his vocation. Fr Walford entered the English Province of the Society on 13 September 1867.
Letter found among the papers of Fr William A. Sutton SJ however the connection with Fr Walford or Cardinal Newman is unknown.
Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890, Saint, Roman Catholic Cardinal, theologian, and educationist