Feiner: Georgetown Letterbook (3 of 5), 1827

File — Box: 1, Folder: 7

Identifier: 50

Feiner: Georgetown Letterbook (3 of 5)

Scope and Contents

This is the third of a series of five Georgetown letterbooks that contain copies of outgoing correspondence. These letterbooks provide resumes of letters sent, many of which were to parents and guardians asking for payment of student fees. This letterbook contains entries during the Georgetown presidency of Feiner.

Materials on Slavery

Contains materials pertaining to Jesuit slaveholding.

On July 5, 1827, William Feiner, SJ, acting as President of Georgetown College, writes a pass for Stephen, an enslaved man, allowing him to go to St. Thomas' Manor.

After providing for his safe passage, Rev, Feiner, SJ, gives Stephen a letter for Rev. Francis Neale, explaining that the plans of sending Stephen to Missouri had failed because his wife refused to go. Moreover, nobody would hire Stephen on account of his "bad conduct," so they thought it best "to send him back to the Manor." [GSA 200]

Dates

1827

Conditions Governing Access

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