Brian Condon: Letters and Documents in 19th Century Australian Catholic History

[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives copy. Marked 'No. 3']

Reverend Sir,

I had left Liverpool before your letter arrived, and it has been forwarded to me here.

You will allow me to say that the difficulties you state all tend to increase the good opinion I had before formed of you, and I shall deem myself fortunate in obtaining for our unfortunate fellow Christians in N.S. Wales the service of a person whose filial attentions and missionary zeal have [earned] him the good opinion of all his acquaintance.

I accept you, my dear Sir, with pleasure. Let me know in how short a time you think you will be ready to go out, and depend upon my doing all I can to render the remainder of your life comfortable.

Believe me Rev. Sir

your very Obedient Servant

+E. Slater VA

[Note: The most extensive collection of transcriptions of Fr Therry's correspondence remains Eris O'Brien's The Foundation of Catholicism in Australia; life and letters of Archpriest John Joseph Therry, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1922]