| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Joseph, 1890 |
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| ID | 4406 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/58 |
| 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, Joseph |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 488 |
| Genre | literature, politics, family |
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| Transcript | Pirie St. Adelaide Oct. 17th 1890. My dear Joseph After a time one gets so careless about the world's opinions though perhaps that is only as long as they are not deservedly adverse, that I forget to give evidence of my continued existence by sending papers home. However, you will have a few by this mail. I need scarcely say how glad I was that you succeeded with the B.A. To expect honors when office, law, and other matters had to be attended to, would be too much. An apprentice I have, though smart enough, especially in racing and petticoat matters, can scarcely get through his intermediates with two tries and plenty of time on hands. I read your essay on Burke with pleasure. Like Carlyle he is one that cannot be imitated, but there is a Miltonic grandeur of diction and thought about Burke that elevates the reader. Perhaps sometimes you may be able to get hold of, or the loan of, Matthew Arnold's Essays. These in criticism, or the little Book on Celtic Literature, is well worth reading. His style is very pure. Spend a shilling sometime on Imaginary Conversations of W. S. Landor — Camelot Series. I almost forgot to mention Arnold's poetry as better even than his prose. The Kapunda Herald articles — 2 a week -— keep my hand in and pay for the hunters, and invitations to lecture come in pairs. Though not in Parliament, I still am a member of Royal Commissions. Yesterday I was chosen one of three to go to Victoria and N.S.W. to try and settle, or bring about a Conference to settle, inter-colonial River questions. Had I been in Parliament this time, I would have been appointed to the Australasian Convention to draw up the Federal Constitution — but the Gods willed otherwise, or rather the beery electors. It is a pity Eugene, if he intended to come out, did not start before, as another Dr. whose place he might have anticipated — Benefit business equal to at least £300 a year to start with — has settled here. But I may set him right. This is a very poor place for lawyers, but Doctors get on beyond their deserts. The elections almost crippled me, but I value life little now, and as long as I can keep a hunter to carry me over 1000 4 feet solid fences per season, I can drag on. I suppose James' new novel has not seen the light yet. His wishes that the world were otherwise make him see others in too cynical a light —but his heart is right. A little more humor, which is the same as charity, would be healthy. I might mention — for Style, in the way of Strength and Freedom — Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter is a model. It is procurable from the vulgar Cole. Well with love and remembrances to all Your affectionate Brother P McM Glynn J. A. Glynn, Esq. |
