Category: Humour
My dear Tom,--I got the papers all safe. I am sure the account is perfectly correct. I only wish the balance was bigger. I waited here to receive these things, and now I discover that I can't sign the warrant of attorney except before a consul, and there is none in this place,...
My dear Tom,--This may perchance be a lengthy despatch, for I have just received a polite invitation from the authorities here to pack off, bag and baggage, over the frontier; a...
5. LETTER V. KENNY JAMES DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., OF THE GRANGE, BRUFFMy dear Tom,--Although it is improbable I shall be able to despatch this by the post of to-day, I take the opportunity of a few moments of domestic peace to answer your last--I...
27. LETTER XXVI. KENNY DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., ORANGE, BRUFF.My dear Tom,--It is nigh a month since I wrote to you last, and if I didn't "steal a few hours from the night, my dear," it might be longer still. The address will tell you wher...
13. LETTER XII. KENNY JAMES DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., OF THE GRANGE, BRUFFMy dear Tom,--Though I begin this to-day, it may be it will take me to the end of the week to finish it, for I am still very weak, and my ideas come sometimes too quick and some...
16. LETTER XV. MRS. DODD TO MRS. MARY GALLAGHER, DODSBOROUGHMy dear Molly,--When I wrote to you last, we were living, quietly, it is true, and unostensively, but happily, on the Lake of Comus, and there we might have passed the whole aut...
31. LETTER XXX. KENNY JAMES DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., OF THE GRANGE, BRUFFMy dear Tom,--I have had a busy week of it, and even now I scarcely perceive that the day is come when I can rest and repose myself. The pleasure-life of this same capital is a...
29. LETTER XXVIII. JAMES DODD TO ROBERT DOOLAN, ESQ., TRINITY COLLEGE,My dear Bob,--If you only knew how difficult it is to obtain even five minutes of quiet leisure in this same capital, you 'd at once absolve me from all the accusations in your...
9. LETTER VIII. JAMES DODD TO LORD GEORGE TIVERTON, M. P., POSTE RESTANTE, BREGENZ.My dear Tiverton,--You often said I was a fellow to make a spoon or spoil a--something which I have forgotten--and I begin to fancy that you were a better prophet than that fell...
33. LETTER XXXII. KENNY JAMES DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., OF THE GRANGE,Well, my dear Tom, my task is at last completed,--my _magnum opus_ accomplished. I have carried all my measures, if not with triumphant majorities, at least with a "good working...
23. LETTER XXII. MRS. DODD TO MRS. MARY GALLAGHERMy dear Molly,--It's little that piety and holy living assists us in this wicked world, as you 'll allow, when I tell you that after all my penances, my mortifications, and my s...
7. LETTER VI. MARY ANNE DODD TO MISS DOOLAN, OF BALLYDOOLAN.Dearest Kitty,--I write these few lines from the Refuge-house on the Spluegen Pass. We are seven thousand feet above the level of something, with fifty feet of snow around us, a...
3. LETTER III. CAROLINE DODD TO MISS COX AT MISS MINCING'S ACADEMY, BLACK ROCK, IRELAND.My dear Miss Cox,--It would appear, from your last, that a letter of mine to you must have miscarried; for I most distinctly remember having written to you on the topics you all...
19. LETTER XVIII. MARY ANNE DODD TO MISS DOOLAN, OP BALLYDOOLANDearest Kitty,--So varied have been my emotions of late, and with such whirlwind rapidity have they succeeded each other in my distracted brain, that I am really at a loss to kn...
1. LETTER I. KENNY JAMES DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., OF THE GRANGE, BRUFFMy dear Tom,--I got the papers all safe. I am sure the account is perfectly correct. I only wish the balance was bigger. I waited here to receive these things, and now I discove...
30. LETTER XXIX. MARY ANNE DODD TO MISS DOOLAN, OF BALLYDOOLANDearest Kitty,--Seventeen long and closely written pages to you--the warm out-gushings of my heart--have I just consigned to the flames. They contained the journal of my life in...
18. LETTER XVII. KENNY JAMES DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., OF THE GRANGE BRUFFMy dear Tom,--The little gleam of sunshine that shone upon us for the last week or so has turned out to be but the prelude of a regular hurricane, and all our feasting and merri...
8. LETTER VII. MRS. DODD TO MRS. MARY GALLAGHER, PRIEST'S HOUSE, BRUFF.My dear Molly,--After fatigues and distresses that would have worn out the strength of a rhinocerass, here we are, at length, in Italy. If you only saw the places we came throug...
24. LETTER XXIII. MISS CAROLINE DODD TO MISS COX, AT MISS MINCING'S ACADEMY, BLACK ROCK, IRELANDMy dear Miss Cox,--I had long looked forward to our visit to Genoa in order to write to you. I had fancied a thousand things of the "Superb City" which would have been matters o...
25. LETTER XXIV. MARY ANNE DODD TO MISS DOOLAN, OF BALLYDOOLAN.Dearest Kitty,--This must be the very shortest of letters, for we are on the wing, and shall be for some days to come. Very few words, however, will suffice to tell you that we...
32. LETTER XXXI. MISS CAROLINE DODD TO MISS COX, AT MISS MINCINGS ACADEMY,My dearest Miss Cox,--It would be worse than ingratitude in me were I to defer telling you how happy I am, and with what a perfect shower of favors Fortune has just overwhelmed...
28. LETTER XXVII. MRS. DODD TO MRS. GALLAGHER, DODSBOROUGHMy dear Molly,--So you tell me that the newspapers is full of me, and that nothing is talked of but "the case of Mrs. Dodd" and her "cruel incarnation in the dungeons of Tuscany...
26. LETTER XXV. JAMES DODD TO ROBERT DOOLAN, ESQ., TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.My dear Bob,--Here we are going it, and in about the very "fastest" place I ever set foot in. In any other city society seems to reserve itself for evening and lamplight; but he...
12. LETTER XI. MISS MARY ANNE DODD TO MISS DOOLAN, OF BALLYDOOLANForget thee! No, dearest Kitty. But how could such cruel words have ever escaped your pen? To cease to retain you in memory would be to avow an oblivion of childhood's joys, and...
17. LETTER XVI. MISS MARY ANNE DODD TO MISS DOOLAN, OF BALLYDOOLANDearest Kitty,--It is but seldom I have to bespeak your indulgence on the score of my brevity, but I must do so now, overwhelmed as I am with occupation, and scarcely a moment l...
4. LETTER IV. MRS. DODD TO MRS. MARY GALLAGHER, DODSBOROUGHMy dear Molly,--It 's well I ever got your last letter, for it seems there's four places called Freyburg, and they tried the three wrong ones first, and I believe they opened an...
2. LETTER II. JAMES DODD TO ROBERT DOOLAN, ESQ., TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.My dear Bob,--I had made up my mind not to write to you till we had quitted this place, where our life has been of the "slowest;" but this morning has brought a letter with a pi...
22. LETTER XXI. JAMES DODD TO ROBERT DOOLAN, ESQ. TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.My dear Bob,--This must be a very brief epistle, since, amongst other reasons, the sheet of letter-paper costs me a florin, and I shall have to pay three more for a messenger to...
6. book I once spoke to you about upon the Continent and foreign travels, I'd devote a whole chapter to these fellows; and more than that, Tom, I'd have an Appendix--a book of travels is nothing without an Appendix in small print--wherein I'd give a li...
20. LETTER XIX. MRS. DODD TO MRS. MARY GALLAGHER, DODSBOROUGHMy dear Molly,--The Earl of Guzeberry, that leaves this to-day for England, kindly offers to take charge of my letters to you; and so I write "Favored by his Lordship" on the ou...
11. LETTER X. MRS. DODD TO MRS. MARY GALLAGHER, DODSBOROUGHMy dear Molly,--I received your letter in due course, and if it was n't for crying, I could have laughed heartily over it! I don't know, I'm sure, where you got your elegant des...
10. LETTER IX. MISS MARY ANNE DODD TO THOMAS PURCELL, ESQ., OF THE GRANGE, BRUFFMy dear Mr. Purcell,--Poor papa has been so ill since his arrival in Italy, that he could not reply to either of your two last letters, and even now is compelled to employ me as...
21. LETTER XX. BETTY COBB TO MISTRESS SHUSAN O'SHEA.My dear Shusan,--It's five months and two days since I wrote to you last, and it 's like five years in regard to the way time has worn and distressed me. The mistress tould Mrs....
15. LETTER XIV. JAMES DODD TO LORD GEORGE TIVERTON, M.P.My dear George,--I 've only five minutes to give you; for the horses are at the door, and we 're to start at once. I have a great budget for you when we meet; for we've been ove...