| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1890 |
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| ID | 4401 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/53 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | McMahon Glynn, Patrick |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | lawyer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Adelaide, 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 | 390 |
| Genre | finding work for his brother, family |
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| Transcript | Pirie St. Adelaide January 20th 1890. My dear Mother Eugene has mentioned all about his arrival. He has decided to go into partnership with, or rather to begin as an assistant to, Dr. Hamilton of Kapunda, where my name is still some guarantee and his own steadiness will be a help. There are some openings here, but capital is required at first. It is better for him to pull on with Hamilton, an able man of experience and intimate friend of mine, for some time. He can either then take a partnership, or set up for himself. In Adelaide at first the established opposition of two rather pushing Catholic Doctors would be against him—and expenses are heavy. I have just written a paragraph for the Catholic paper introducing him to the public. For a few days I went to Victoria to see whether a better opening existed there. The Colony is richer, but to set up for himself would require Caste. Nine tenths of the Doctors—here and elsewhere—are humbugs, all splash, and small knowledge, but the public take some time to discriminate. At Geelong, where my articled clerk's Mother lives, he would get on, but it would be only in time. If he cared to rough life half as much as I have done, I would, though not strongly, suggest his going there. The place is pretty, 30,000 in population, solid. But he will be on his legs in Kapunda. Old Denny, 81, is breaking up. He is Cissey Glynn's—otherwise Tyrrell's—husband. Fanny is as impetuous & good natured as ever —Lizzy at Fitzroy taking the world coolly and with her daughter Eva at Work in the country, Bertha in town at work, Tom at Broken Hill, and the others hanging about—Alf, I believe is in work, and Mr. O'Farrell either in gaol or drunk. There is another political vacancy here but I mink I will let it slip. I refused to stand for the Upper House. If some one with £20,000 & a sympathetic disposition took me up, I would probably take myself off. With love, in Your affectionate Son P. McM. Glynn By the way I must thank Johnny for the presents. Unfortunately I have not smoked a pipe for 5 years, & scarcely 5 months anything else. I am a 71/4 years teetotaller. |
