| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1883 |
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| ID | 4376 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/26 |
| Year | 1883 |
| Sender | McMahon Glynn, Patrick |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | lawyer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Kapunda, South Australia, Australia |
| Destination | Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland |
| Recipient | Glynn, Ellen |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 688 |
| Genre | local economy, prospects, family, socialising |
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| Transcript | Kapunda South Australia August 15th 1883. My dear Mother I was pleased to find as your last letter informed me that both business and all your health were good. If I have omitted to write as often as I have wished you must put it down to the pressure of press work upon my time at the wrong moment. Indeed it is well to have it to do now, as it helps to keep me alive, which is about as much and no more than law is capable of at the present moment. There is plenty of it, but little money in return. Three successively bad harvests have crippled the country, and fellows that can and won't, as well as those that cannot pay, are rather numerous. Fortunes are not to be made here just now. I was admitted on the 21st July — but the order is only conditional on my residence here during the ensuing 18 months. They are rather protective against strange lawyers here. Johnny Wallsh is still in town and likely to settle down there. I often see him. Like myself he has been a teetotaller for some seven or eight months. I have not heard from either Lizzy or Sister Bernard for many a day. Fanny Glynn has been unfortunate in her boarders recently; plenty of loafers amongst them; but I was happily able to repay some of her former kindness to me at a critical moment. I have been sufficiently the opposite of my creed to guarantee a fellow in difficulties similar to what were once my own, who, of course has disappeared and thereby conferred upon me the privilege of paying a considerable sum of money. However, we learn wisdom from misfortune, the greatest of which is certainly not a pecuniary loss. I hope you get the Herald regularly. It is pleasant to hear that the proprietor has been several times congratulated on the tone of the articles. Last Monday we had a political meeting here — the first at which I spoke. The Herald you will next receive contains a condensed report of it. It is more than any other country journal is capable of — to publish the report next morning. But the young fellow who manages the paper is full of energy, and as he thinks I am a sort of Brian Boru and I reciprocate his good opinion, we get on well together. Scandrett, the proprietor, knows more about a good glass of whisky than literature but has the virtue of being a good and certain paymaster. We have our dances at the Institute every fortnight during the winter months as usual, and our ball comes off on the 31st instant. My left big toe went in for a little calisthenics on its own account last night, but on the whole I must give it credit for having behaved very well since I came to South Australia. I was glad to hear that Joseph is keeping up to our hopes of him. If Eugene likes he ought also laugh at examinations. Mary Agnes must by this time be growing up a second Elizabeth and Robert another Jim Mace. Tell him to remember me to all the fathers when he goes to school. I was glad to read of the French College in "Young Ireland". Tell Johnny and Tommy to remember me to all the fellows in the Billiard Room. I often am back in Gort when I am by myself. James wrote me a letter some time ago which I will answer by next post. In fact, the more you write to me the better, as fellows out here like me often mark time by the arrival of the home mail. Give my love to the O'Donnells when you write to them, and remember me to all my friends, especially the TyrrelLs and Brannons. I have written this on bad paper rather hurredly as it is late at night — With love to you all Your affectionate Son P. McM. Glynn P.S. By the way your letters are always a little over weight on ordinary paper. However don't make them shorter. |
