| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1880 |
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| ID | 4355 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/5 |
| Year | 1880 |
| Sender | McMahon Glynn, Patrick |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | barrister |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
| Destination | Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland |
| Recipient | Glynn, Ellen |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 406 |
| Genre | finding work, emigration |
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| Transcript | 10 Henrietta St., Dublin, 21st June 1880. My dear Mother, I am happy to hear you are well by your letter this morning, As regards Australia, the rules, which I was promised, have not been given to me yet, but I am told that it is easy to get called, by an application, before the expiration of the Six Months. I will see McDevitt, ex-atty. general for Queensland, in court today, who promised to bring me down the Rules. He says it is a good field where prejudice pushes on few, and ability many. Here Prejudice, interest, and cliqueism is nearly everything, as though the old boy himself could not keep one Medal from me, the former I might say, robbed me out of the gold ones. In fact everyone pointed me out as the certain winner of the gold Medal for legal debates; but favouritism conferred it on a man, (his own uncle being one of the Judges to decide) who, metaphorically speaking, is not fit to clean the shoes of those next on the list. Notwithstanding everything, the difference in the Marking was only the 3rd of a mark. The members, who from hearing the debates, could best judge, were so annoyed that they are about to change the Rules to prevent Chairmen from marking for the future. In College, though I was reputed as the best extempore speaker, to get a medal was out of the question. There favouritism is as powerful as Mammon in Society. I got a certificate for Oratory, but this is like getting £10 in discharge of a debt of £100. However, though the result increases my contempt, it does not interfere with my temper; it is good to get anything out of men on to the backs of whose presumption I often applied the lash. I would be most happy to go to Australia. There seems a field there for a good speaker, here it is narrow and chances to opening few. I thought of South Africa, on account of the expense of Australia, as £50 would be a heavy sum unless I had a prospect of being soon able to recoup it. I have just written an address to the French College, and must be off to get it signed for the present Your affectionate Son Patrick McM. Glynn. Please excuse the blots—in the office of Blaquieres you never can get decent pen, ink, or paper. |
