Brian Condon: Letters and Documents in 19th Century Australian Catholic History
[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives copy]
Charlotte Place
Sydney
June 16th. 1821
As John Thomas Campbell Esq. Provost Marshall, as Treasurer of the fund established for the erection of a Catholic Chapel in Sydney, has had the kindness to signify his intention publicly to acknowledge the receipt of the different sums which shall have been subscribed for that purpose, Rev John J. Therry feels it incumbent on him in the first instance to express, as he now respectfully does, his thanks to that gentleman for his liberal donation to said fund, of twenty pounds.
He derives great pleasure from being able with truth to assure him, and the Protestant Gentlemen of his Country in general, that the liberality recently manifested by them, in generously contributing to erect a temple for the Service of the Living God according to Roman Catholic forms of Worship, has excited in the minds of his Roman Catholic Brethren, gratitude as sincere as it is unutterable, a liberality which splendidly evinces that bigotry and intolerance have been discarded from at least the higher orders of Society, and superseded by the benign spirit of universal religious toleration.
[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]