Seven years ago we posted a message (http://venerablematttalbotresourcecenter.blogspot.com/2008/01/required-reading-about-matt-talbot.html) that "anyone who is seriously interested in the life of Matt
Talbot needs to read the two books authored by Mary Purcell (1906-1991), who has
been described as the ‘doyenne of religious biographers’ and the possibly
definitive biographer of Matt Talbot. These books are Matt Talbot and His
Times (rev. ed., 1977), and Remembering Matt Talbot (rev. ed.,
1990)."
While these two books are still available
for purchase online, there is now a PDF online copy of Matt Talbot and His
Times with a Foreward by
Fr. Brian Lawless, current Vice Postulator for the Cause of Matt Talbot, at
http://www.acnireland.org/images/books/matt_talbot_times.pdf.