Brian Condon: Letters and Documents in 19th Century Australian Catholic History
[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives copy. Draft. Incomplete?]
Hyde Park
4th. July 1827
His Excellency the Governor having declined to afford the long and anxiously expected Government assistance to the Catholic Chapel Hyde Park in consequence of the low state of the Colonial funds and their utter inadequacy to the completion of other public works of pressing and paramount necessity, the Reverend John Joseph Therry, who has had the honor to commence and continue that work under highly distinguished patronage, feels it incumbent on him strenuously to endeavor to complete it without further delay, and the more especially as the walls begin to exhibit signs of approaching dilapidation and cannot therefore with safety be suffered any longer to remain without a roof.
And he confidently trusts that the benevolent and generous inhabitants of Australia will enable him to complete within a short period an Edifice which is likely to be of very great public utility and a lasting and honorable monument of their liberality.
[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]