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

[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives copy]

Gov^t House

Sydney

29^th. October 1821

Dear Sir,

In case you should wish to have your very well written and most interesting address to me to-day, at the Ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Roman Catholic Church, published in the Sydney Gazette, I give myself the pleasure of sending you in writing my reply thereto, containing my real sentiments to be published along with your address which I now return to you for that purpose.

Wishing yourself and your Brethren in the Roman Catholic Faith every happiness and prosperity in this world and every Heavenly Blessing in the next.

I remain

dear Sir

Your faithful and Humble Servant

L. Macquarie

[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]