| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, James P., 1891 |
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| ID | 4410 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/62 |
| Year | 1891 |
| 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, James P. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 421 |
| Genre | politics, family |
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| Transcript | Queens Chambers Pirie St. Adelaide February 23rd 1891 My dear James, I owe you a letter and must now discharge the debt. Matters are in a pretty mess in Ireland, though by no means worse than has been the case in other countries under similar conditions. You may make up your mind for it, that five sixths of politicians are humbugs, whatever be their nationality or creed. Gladstone can persuade himself that he believes in anything, but the man's life has been a model of consistency and devotion to principle compared to Disraeli's, the man whom the stupidest party the world ever knew, the Conservatives of the last fifty years, worshipped. Ireland is certainly the playground of quacks, conservative, liberal and nationalist. The Unionists, by their selfish stupidity, have made Legislative integrity next to impossible under conditions that poorly admit of anything I have written a pamphlet on the Murray question, which others understand. I will send you a copy when republished from the Newspapers. Last week I declined to stand for a vacancy in the Legislative Assembly & this week to become a candidate for the Upper House. Eugene has gone to Kapunda. If he starts there on his own account, he can make money on my connection—but he is at present assistant to Dr. Hamilton. Hamilton may require him not to practice when they sever, but I told him not to make such a fool of himself & I hope he won't. I only can suffer, in diminished friendship with Hamilton. Eugene seems honest, intelligent, and prudent tie is a bit unsophisticated—somewhat coarse-grained from the point of view of sensibility, but we are what we are. I think he will be popular among his patients, and the necessity of the strife here will knock out of him any possible traces of the—shall I call it, passivity of_ his early years. I think what you noticed in him, so far as it exists, was due to absence of self-consciousness and a little lack of the ideal. But we are not all dreamers. How is your second book getting on? I suppose you have some difficulty with the publishers. I see the O’Donnells have begun to exemplify Malthusianism. I must try & scrape [together] a few pounds for them-but my demands here on all sides are numerous. I find that to be too liberal in donations is to destroy gratitude. Hoping to hear from you soon, I am, Your affectionate brother P. McM. Glynn J. P. Glynn Esq. |
