Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1985.1.1.25Description
Mounted bust length studio portrait of a woman. Photographer was Metcalf, the successor to Whipple, of Boston.
Handwritten in ink on reverse: Mrs. Slattery.
Handwritten in pencil on album page above and below: Mrs. Slattery, U.S.A., who was never a nun. In 1890 I was introducted by Rev. Mr. Woolston of Philadelphia, Baptist Minister, to Rev. Mr. Slattery, an ex-priest of Rome who had been recently ordained a Baptist Minister. He had married an ex-Romanist who had been in service. She told me she knew little about nuns as she was a day scholar at Parvehill [sp?] Schoool. They had been married about two years and had a baby girl of six months and were very bad off financially. I gave two benefit lectures for them, which cleared 50 pounds equal to 250 dollars, which I gave them.
Continued on next album page (no photo): Rev. Mr. Slattery, converted priest. A few years after in 1895 I heard that Mrs. Slattery was lecturing as an escaped nun and she had written a book called "Life in a Convent" copied from my book, "Convent Life Unveiled." The book she wrote was sent to me by friends. In 1897 they came to England and called on me at my home in Sussex Gardens. Mr. Slattery asked me to give him letters of introduction to Protestant Ministers. I said I could not because he had allowed his wife to advertise herself as an escaped nun, which both of them in 1890 told me she had never been a nun. I showed them the book she copied from mine. I would not take any action for copying my book but I could not [illegible--introduce?] them.Collection
Lowell Kunze Collection