Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 475
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to England in May. I can thoroughly enjoy your hairbreadth escapes now when I know you are out of it for the time. I have shown privately some extracts from your letters, with accounts of your flights, to a few people, & they are hugely impressed. I don't know whether I told you that Fr. Gartlan & Fr. Little (now of Brisbane) came to dinner with us one night. I showed them the extracts, & Tommy wanted them for Alma Mater but I said I was sure you would object to publication of anything which could possibly be associated with you while on active service. They both have very kindly feelings towards you & Roger.
I am enclosing some newspaper cuttings from the Freeman & Catholic Press which will amuse you. O'Reilly & Cullen got to "holts" over O'Reilly's charge that Catholics were persecuted at the University. As far as I can see the "persecution" consisted of the refusal of the members of the senate to accept O'Reilly's invitation to meet Dr. Mannix when he came to Sydney recently!
The other cutting is O'Reilly's carefully planned attack on the "rich" Catholics who will not support him in his appeal for funds for additions to St John's. It is also highly amusing, & is the veriest "squeal" that a disgruntled & disappointed man ever