Series 03: John Brady Nash letters, January 1914-December 1915 - Page 496
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[Page 496]
letter came from Ted this afternoon. Mrs Parsons is good to call for you in the motor, she should be well off when the old man has passed in his cheques. I hope so. Please thank her for being so good to you.
I should like to see the red tipped leaves from the gum tree as they are arranged in the bowl on the landing. A letter from Pat Watt came this afternoon, please thank her for writing it, she is a clever little woman. Good. Glad that Tabby had a day up the harbour with the Bridges. Yes I shall be very sorry if you leave Macquarie Street, it is a desireable place to live in, and all my books and other material are fitted in there, but more about this and 211 on a separate page as they are purely business matters.
11.10 p.m. Captain Plant has just come in and he is reading the articles that you sent on the sheets of the Sun, and a poem by Marion M. Knowles. You may not have seen the poem so I shall send it on to you.
[Marion Miller Knowles (1865-1949), Catholic lay leader, teacher, journalist, novelist and poet.]
Quite enough people have left Australia for this part of the war, it is of no use their coming now, they will have no effect upon the ultimate result during the remainder of this year, and for next year lots of time remains ahead. It is highly probable that German Bill will be master in Europe before 1915, and several years will pass before he is dislodged, from his preeminence, the water should pull him up, that will suffice for our purposes, though it will be necessitate that our fleet shall be able to get at the German ships and teach them a lesson in water fighting, this as far as we have learned during the war is more a matter of guns and gunnery than aught else, the ship that can fire one mile further than the other can win every time because she can stand off at safe distance, the while hitting the opponent and destroying her.
Tell Tepper to stay at home, there will be plenty for him to do there to help keep things rolling for the good of the country, we here are but wasters of money which the industrious must get together some how. It was written in a paper lately that the British government had told the Commonwealth that for the remainder of the war government money must be fund [found] in Australia.
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Joseph Dear.
Caggie dear: Glad that you though my letters to be interesting, the Matareiah subject should please the readers of the Catholic paper, if the Press cares to publish my notes about it. Prof. Watson comes from Adelaide, he is an M.D. of Paris, but how he ever obtained the degree I never have been able to understand, to do so one had expected the possessor to talk French fluently, this he cannot do, I have known him for a long time but he has always been a kind of mystery to me, I have not see[n]