| Title: | McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1891 |
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| ID | 4411 |
| Collection | Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins] |
| File | glynn/63 |
| 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, Ellen |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 384 |
| Genre | mining business |
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| Transcript | Queens Chambers Pine St. Adelaide 17 November 1891 My dear Mother Probably this will arrive in time to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. I got your letter a few hours ago on my return from Broken Hill by the night's express. For the future, I intend to attend the Courts there—about 5 every year—as a New South Wales barrister. This was my first visit in a professional capacity, made on the suggestion of a solicitor resident there; but it promises to be a profitable district for me, as I had seven cases yesterday. Broken Hill is now a place of 30,000 inhabitants. There is another panic on in shares at present, caused by financial pressure in Victoria and timidity as to a new method of opening up the Broken Hill Mine, which is ruining some people, but the mine is richer than ever. Fancy a place that was a desert ten years ago displaying now, within its compas[s], more business energy than Dublin. It is still more difficult for you to conceive that the town at present is nearly run out of water. They largely depend on Stephens Creek, which, reversing the order of Nature, has its bed over its water. The water is got by soakage into holes dug in the sand. The mines are about to lay pipes to the Darling, 80 miles distant I will send J. J. Madden his pedigree, which I am surprised you know so well. The influenza has been well about here. I got a first attack about five weeks ago, but my clerk, who acts as an advance agent or specimen distribution for all the diseases within range of Australia, gave it to me a second time. It was rather awkward, as he took to his bed for 12 days, leaving me at a critical moment double work. However, I have beaten the disease. I have not heard from the people in the other colonies this many a day. Hoping all are well at home, and with love to all, I am Your affectionate Son. P. McM. Glynn P.S. Joseph sent the subject for theses for L.L.D. degree, but the Influenza and other diseases having left me alone, I could not attend before a judge to write them. |
