Monk

Father Ignatius of Jesus O.S.B. Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne Anglican Benedictine monk. Autograph Letter Signed to ‘old & faithful a spiritual Child’ thanking her for her ‘kind offer of hospitality’.

ref. 24698 — 5 October 1905; on letterhead of Hentland Vicarage Ross-on-Wye. See the entry for this ‘charismatic preacher and flamboyant individual’ referred to several times in Kilvert’s diary in the Oxford DNB which states that having been dispossessed out of his property and forced to dissolve his monastery in Norwich in 1869 he was able with the support of a wealthy benefactor to purchase a property at Capel-y-ffin in the Black Mountains south Wales where he built Llanthony Abbey. 2pp 12mo. On bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged. Folded once for postage. The letter is headed ‘Jesus Only.’ It begins: ‘My dear daughter in Jesus. / Very many thanks for your kind offer of hospitality - we shall hope to be with you by about 3 p m.’ He thanks her for her kindness in taking them in and saving them ‘the expense of going to an Hotel. It will be nice & comfortable for me being with so old & faithful a spiritual Child.’ He signs: ‘Your affect father in / Jesus / Ignatius O.S.B. / Monk.’ 5 October 1905; on letterhead of Hentland Vicarage, Ross-on-Wye. unknown