Letter to Lux Meagher from Vincent Meagher c.1910 (page 1)

Letter to Lux Meagher from Vincent Meagher c.1910 (page2)

Transcript

[NB Letter is transcribed verbatim]

74 Manningtree Road, Hawthorn.

Dear Lukie I hope you are well and doing well in your work and can save a lot of money to buy my football and boxing gloves I suppose you enjoy your self very much every Saturday at the skating rink and you have a very good time sleeping in bed when sometimes I have to get up at half past seven and get to school at half past nine I would like to go up and see you in the holidays we break upon Wednesday or Thursday and I will ask mum to let me go up I hope you will have a holiday on the day of the new year and if I saw you on that day I would give you a card but it is not possible bumper said //

[page 2] you had to stay up till three in the morning and none of our family would like that I suppose you cannot have many smokes now. Every day or only some days this is how the smaller boy sings “bom bom bom bom bom bombard-ier. bot bot bot bot bot bombardier don’t let anyone see that. We have beat every public school so far Pat Morrissey, is the biggest boy in the school is very friendly with me, he likes me to go to every public school match and he told bump to tell Leo to bring me to the match against Westly because my bariking puts heart into him and all the team. I am going to bring a new suit and my loudest scream to chear the team when we are playing again scotch whom I think we will just beat. Coming home from the Wesley match a boy said to me that little Xavier kid ought to be put in a cradle your loving Vinny

[Bump/Bumper is the nickname of older brother Wilbur]