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====== Letter from Morres to Dorothy M-P, 29 September 1897 ====== | ====== Letter from Morres to Dorothy M-P, 29 September 1897 ====== | ||
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+ | Morres, as much as his father, believed in women as morally superior, civilising influences on men. In his last letter to his step-sister Dorothy, he described himself as 'a lonely old beggar ... I have not seen a " | ||
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+ | He wrote that he was glad Dorothy was going in for poetry. He remembered before Dorothy was born that 'Your Mother used to read me some of her poetry that she had written years before when our father used to be in Brisbane attending to her[sic] parliamentary duties & she and I were Mates at Maroon with Meta & the baby to build castles about - We were good friends in those days'. It was a bad thing for me that Tom [T de M. M-P] lost his health at the Palmer & I had to leave home & battle for myself. a pretty mess I made of it.' He signed off, 'Your useless old brother, Morres M-P' | ||
+ | ((M-P family papers, NLA MS 7801, Box 1, folder 22.)) | ||