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tlm-p_s_diaries [2024/01/04 21:08] – [Diary for 1888] judithtlm-p_s_diaries [2024/06/12 21:53] – [Diary for 21 May - 30 August 1882] judith
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 Nora had written each Sunday to him while he was away and gave good news until a letter dated 25 June and received 16 August: 'Nora was troubled and I fear not in good health, too much anxiety for her. Lizzie not strong and had gone to Brisbane to meet Thesie Mort. Miss Foy [governess] delicate, seasons bad, Redmond obstinate [about what I wonder?], Hugh breaking our again [ie. drinking] and Hervey, Maggie and Mr Helicar at Maroon. Poor darling it is too much for her and I must get back as soon as I can. Wrote, and wrote to Hugh, I hope it will have some effect upon him. It is all very hard, and cut me up. To change programme instead of going to Scotland & Ireland must take Paris and be guided by next letters and if things are not getting on better go back at once.'(16 August). The mention of 'Mr Helicar' is a clue as to why TLM-P thought he was needed at home. In 1885, a notice appeared in the //Brisbane Courier// regarding 'Day & Hellicar, Solicitors for the Insolvent, Brisbane'.(8 January 1885) Was Hervey facing bankruptcy or was his wife at maroon coincidentally? Or was the financial problem with Hugh? In either case, it was something more appropriate for his father, rather than Nora, to deal with. In a later entry for the same day, TLM-P's state of mind is indicated by his repeating himself, 'Letters from Maroon make me alter my plans so as to be ready to go back of necessary, instead of going to Edinburgh and Dublin as I proposed will take the Continent first. Wrote to Nora and Hugh, Jemima and Louisa.'(16 August)\\ Nora had written each Sunday to him while he was away and gave good news until a letter dated 25 June and received 16 August: 'Nora was troubled and I fear not in good health, too much anxiety for her. Lizzie not strong and had gone to Brisbane to meet Thesie Mort. Miss Foy [governess] delicate, seasons bad, Redmond obstinate [about what I wonder?], Hugh breaking our again [ie. drinking] and Hervey, Maggie and Mr Helicar at Maroon. Poor darling it is too much for her and I must get back as soon as I can. Wrote, and wrote to Hugh, I hope it will have some effect upon him. It is all very hard, and cut me up. To change programme instead of going to Scotland & Ireland must take Paris and be guided by next letters and if things are not getting on better go back at once.'(16 August). The mention of 'Mr Helicar' is a clue as to why TLM-P thought he was needed at home. In 1885, a notice appeared in the //Brisbane Courier// regarding 'Day & Hellicar, Solicitors for the Insolvent, Brisbane'.(8 January 1885) Was Hervey facing bankruptcy or was his wife at maroon coincidentally? Or was the financial problem with Hugh? In either case, it was something more appropriate for his father, rather than Nora, to deal with. In a later entry for the same day, TLM-P's state of mind is indicated by his repeating himself, 'Letters from Maroon make me alter my plans so as to be ready to go back of necessary, instead of going to Edinburgh and Dublin as I proposed will take the Continent first. Wrote to Nora and Hugh, Jemima and Louisa.'(16 August)\\
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-TLM-P returned to Brisbane, via Sydney, arriving on 19 January 1883.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 19 January 1883, cited in Darbyshire.)) +TLM-P returned to Brisbane, via Sydney, arriving on 19 January 1883.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 19 January 1883, cited in Darbyshire.)) For an insightful analysis of this diary especially in terms of TLM-P's 'hybrid' identity as a British-Australian, see Andrew Hassam, //Through Australian Eyes: Colonial Perceptions of Imperial Britain//, Melbourne University Press, 2000. 
 ===== Diary for 1888 ===== ===== Diary for 1888 =====
 This diary is located at MLMSS3117/box 6, item 3.\\ This diary is located at MLMSS3117/box 6, item 3.\\
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