| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1885 |
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| ID | 4387 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/37 |
| Year | 1885 |
| Sender | McMahon Glynn, Patrick |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | lawyer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Destination | Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland |
| Recipient | Glynn, Ellen |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 648 |
| Genre | family, achievements |
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| Transcript | 2 Mint Place, La Trobe St. Melbourne 31st Dec. 1885 My dear Mother You see I am at present in Melbourne and staying at Fanny McDonald's. I came over for a few days, arriving on Xmas Eve. Fanny is not much changed within the last 31/2 years, has a large boarding house on which by hard work she manages to live & her niece, Cecilia, is staying with her. Cecilia, Robert's daughter, is now 18 years of age, fairly good looking, and a contrast to her impulsive aunt in that she possesses a considerable power of reserve—not, however, stolid demureness, but rather that which is connected with a sense of Maidenly pride—often a rarity here. Bobby, her brother, is expected from Sydney today, but the mail leaves here in an hour, so I cannot say anything about him this time. Robert left some property, mining scripts chiefly, out of the proceeds of which an allowance is made to the children through the administrator, a man named Callacher, who, however, is swindling them right and left. I am about to investigate the position of affairs, but cannot unfortunately go to Sydney to do so. However, it can nevertheless be done through agents, & I will look into the matter & if necessary cite the trustee before the Court of Chancery. Mary Anne is getting very old in appearance. She lives, has a shop, in Lygon St, Carlton, Melbourne, & probably has a competence, can took [?talk] a good deal in perhaps a style slightly eccentric. Cissey is living in her boarding-house & her husband gets more work now than he used to. She has aged a little also. Kitty Tyrrell is now I think 13, growing very tall & slender, with an unfortunate stoop of which with proper care she might have been broken, has a great look of Nora Tyrrell in her calm affectionate eyes, though the features are not similar. She has improved considerably in the direction of firmness of character within the last few years. Lizzy Denny, Cissey's other child, is I should think about 7 years old, a bright eyed, kindly, rather pleasing looking than handsome, little girl. I don't know any others here of our connection. One of the Mc- Nevins, Willie, perhaps, is a Member of Parliament here; but I never met him. He used to be a state-school master at a place up country called Belfast, & got in a few years ago. I was yesterday talking to a journalist who knows him & asked my friend to mention my name & origin to him. Before I left South Australia I was very busy with politics, having had to address meetings of unemployed etc. I sent you a book called S. A. Notabilities in which I have got a place. The Book is badly got up & many of the biographies seem to have been written by the subjects themselves, they are so falsely eulogistic & misleading, the Linklater, for instance, about whom I was spoken to here yesterday by an English journalist who had never heard of him though he was 10 months in S.A. Linklater is a scamp of the most mediocre pretensions, & was struck off the rolls recently. I have only sat down to send you a scribble of half an hour's length, as a mail closes here at 10.30 a.m. As the wish is the main point & takes effect from the time of its being offered, I wish you all a happy new year, in which & sending her love & remembrances to all Fanny joins me. I return on Saturday the 2nd January to S.A. This place would be a more congenial one to live in, but the circumstances make a man's position rather than himself. I hope you are all well & will write soon again. Your affectionate Son P. McM. Glynn |
