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

[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives original]

Ship Surrey

Port Jackson

Feb 15^th. 1822

Sir,

I have been favoured with your very obliging letter of date 13^th. instant for which I beg you will accept my best thanks.

I shall not fail to move Earl Bathurst on my arrival in England to instruct Sir Thomas Brisbane to extend some further assistance towards completing the Roman Catholic Chapel at Sydney.

I remain, in haste, Sir

Yours very truly

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]