| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1890 |
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| ID | 4407 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/59 |
| 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 | 603 |
| Genre | advice on emigration, adversity, family |
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| Transcript | Queens Chambers Pine St. Adelaide Dec. 2nd 1890. My dear Mother Just a few lines by this mail. A letter from James about a fortnight ago told me how you all were, and that Eugene was thinking of starting for Australia this month. However, Eugene has not written to me on the subject for the last year, so that his mind is still probably in the making-up stage. It is rather late for him to come here now. Up to 8 or 9 months ago there was a good opening in Adelaide, for a Catholic Doctor, but since then it has been filled, and well, by an Australian who returned from Scotland with his degrees, just at the proper moment when another Dr., who had come in for a fortune, was about to clear out. The other Dr., however, comes back this week and takes on what possible practice an outsider might have got. Besides, a Dr. McMahon from Cork left Ireland on 31st Oct. to settle here. He wrote to me, which Deary and others also did, on his behalf, but the return of the Dr. I mentioned fills up the gap. I might have got Eugene the Catholic societies a few months ago, but of course could not guarantee anything about him. They were given to the quack Russell, (chiefly as a teetotaller) whom I recently smashed up in a Court case. Professional and clerical pursuits are getting overdone here. If I had not made some reputation, I might next to starve, having no family connections here. My partner, for instance, though a Colonial, has next to no practice, though I have to give him half the proceeds of business, having taken him on under these terms when a Member. He is a good, hardworking office drudge, fit for the pettifogging solicitor's work, but I would not let him plead for a fly. However, at the end of the term, of which 9 months are to run, I can recast my position. There is another no confidence motion on here, which, if carried, may result in a dissolution. I don't know whether I would stand just now. The people, who respect me, believe I'm wealthy, but Providence evidently built me for other ends than to be a credit to Croesus. By the way, to speak of others. The Bergins are in Napier St. Fitzroy, Melbourne, not very rich, as the Strike hit them hard; poor old Denny, Cissey's husband, is parlaysed [sic]; Fanny Shackell (nee Glynn) is at Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, impulsive & good natured as ever; Mrs. De Mouncey, (Cecilia Glynn, Robert's daughter) and her husband in Sydney — no children, two having been bora dead; and Mother Bernard somewhere in the Universe. Her order is very poor, and always at logger heads with our local Bishop, though I believe the Cardinal1 is bottle holder for Mother Bernard, or rather ex mother Mary, in her endeavors to knock the Episcopal dignatory out. Pamell has made a nice mess of his party. He ought to have the manliness to resign. Ireland is certainly an unfortunate country; the country of patriots, quacks, grandiloquent bombast, & real and poetical grievances. So Agnes is home now —a young woman. Tell her she has forgotten me though my silence is no indication I have forgotten her. I was almost going to say I wish she came out here; but really the race physically degenerates here, let them say what they will. The dry heat withers the young brood up. Excuse this rambling scribble, and with love to all Believe me, Your affectionate Son P McM Glynn |
