Hi there fellow historians,

Hi there mods. I posted this a day or two ago and got no response. It was late when I posted, and I kind of screwed up the title of the post. I deleted that post and recreated this with a much more specific title. Hope you don't mind.

I'm having some trouble. I need to find out how Alexander Martin Sullivan either founded or came to own the Morning News in 1859. His brother, Timothy Daniel Sullivan, wrote that the Evening News, which began on January 18, 1859, quickly turned into a morning paper, which first appeared on April 26, 1859. Ann Andrews, in Newspapers and Newsmakers, stated that Sullivan "took control of three other Dublin newspapers," the Evening News and Morning News among them. Sullivan posted a prospectus for the Evening News in the Nation (Dec. 18, 1858), but not for the Morning News, wherein he later becomes addressed as the "Editor of the Morning News" in later editions of the Nation. Alternatively, Marta Ramon cited that Dr. John C. Waters was the editor of the Morning News by 1863. Waters was a popular contributer to the Nation, so perhaps he was eventually made editor of Morning News, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where the Morning News originally began. Later, in 1860, Sullivan wrote to O'Brien and discussed the paper, but there seems to be no evidence of its creation or purchase. The British Newspaper Archive has either failed me, or I have failed it. Anyone able to help clear this up for me?