Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The correspondence reflects Tierney's interest in Catholic history and contemporary church politics, especially in the period leading up to the establishment of the new Roman Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850. There are extensive series of letters illustrating his dealings with his publishers, especially Booker and Dolman, and series in which Tierney attempts, not always successfully, to borrow manuscripts from the Jesuits, which illustrate the tension in England in the 1830s and 1840s...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The correspondence reflects Tierney's interest in Catholic history and contemporary church politics, especially in the period leading up to the establishment of the new Roman Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850. There are extensive series of letters illustrating his dealings with his publishers, especially Booker and Dolman, and series in which Tierney attempts, not always successfully, to borrow manuscripts from the Jesuits, which illustrate the tension in England in the 1830s and 1840s...

Scope and Contents

including (3-5) MAT to The Tablet (1844), on 'Father Persons and the Rev. Mr. Tierney'; (6) MAT, answer to questions on intention and object of Eucharist, and respect due to it; (7) MAT, answer why he prefers to follow guidance of Newman and other converts from Anglicanism

Scope and Contents including (2) MAT, A letter to the King on Catholic emancipation (1825); (3) [R. Watkins?], Catholic claims. At a meeting ... at Beverley ... for the purpose of petitioning Parliament, [1828]; (4) MAT, Sermon on the conduct to be pursued by Catholics in their intercourse with their Protestant neighbours (1830); (8) T.M. O'CONNELL, reprint from The Tablet, 27 JUN 1846, on petition to Pope on powers and election of Vicars Apostolic; (18) Versions of petition to Pope on restoration of hierarchy...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The correspondence reflects Tierney's interest in Catholic history and contemporary church politics, especially in the period leading up to the establishment of the new Roman Catholic hierarchy in England in 1850. There are extensive series of letters illustrating his dealings with his publishers, especially Booker and Dolman, and series in which Tierney attempts, not always successfully, to borrow manuscripts from the Jesuits, which illustrate the tension in England in the 1830s and 1840s...

Scope and Contents

Draft sale catalogue for Lingard and Tierney papers, 1917