%0 Kit %A Roothaan, Joannes Philippus, 1785-1853 %I DigitalGeorgetown %D 2013 %C Washington, D.C. %G Dutch %T Roothaan, Jan Philip, SJ, Archive %U http://hdl.handle.net/10822/558938 %X Correspondence, mainly from Jan Philip Roothaan, S.J., to his family in Amsterdam. Born in Amsterdam in 1785, Roothaan was named the twenty-first General of the Society of Jesus in 1829. The correspondence dates from his earliest days as a young novice to the final days of his Generalship.