Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection, [195-]-[1988].

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Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection, [195-]-[1988].

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Composed of a variety of materials produced by the Stanbrook Abbey Press, such as bookplates, broadsides, cards, and pamphlets. Also includes some articles about the press, and correspondence to Philip and Mary McNiff from the press. In addition there are some letters of Dame Hildelith Cumming of the Abbey.

2 linear ft. (6 boxes)

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7376232

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Cumming, Hildelith

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Stanbrook Abbey. Press

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Stanbrook Abbey is a cloistered order of Benedictine nuns founded in the 17th century. The order relocated to England following the upheavals of the French Revolution. In 1876 the Abbey began its printing operations, in part to restore the library's contents and enrich the spiritual and intellectual life of the nuns, but also to help supply other English Benedictine communities. In the 20th century, and in particular under the guidance of Dame Hildelith Cumming, printer for the Abbey from 1956-1...