| Description | Comprising papers regarding the election process of the abbesses Sister Mary Teresa Jocelyn, Sister Mary Magdalen Nevin, Sister Mary Peter Wallace, and Sister Anna Maria Smyth. The papers include: the names of sisters voting; signed confirmations of elections by the Vicar for Religious or the Bishop of Plymouth; signed acceptances by the elected abbess, some of which are decorated; and documents laying out the order for the rites of election, confirmation, and installation of an abbess. |