You should ask Wontner to telegraph you definitely as early as possible on Monday.
MORRISON'S HOTEL, DUBLIN, _September_ 1, 1891.
MY OWN WIFIE,--I have received Magurri's letter safely, and hope to be able to leave here on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening, sleeping at Holyhead, and visiting the place in Wales[2] next morning on my way back to London.
MacDermott says he does not think I can get the loan from Hibernian Bank concluded within a fortnight, but will hasten matters as much as possible. The bank and their solicitors approve the security and proposal generally, but it will take a little time to make the searches and go through other formalities which lawyers always insist upon in such cases.
By to-morrow I expect to have done as much as I possibly can for the present in the matter of the new paper. It has been a very troublesome business, as a dispute has arisen between different sections of my own friends as to who shall { 323} have the largest share in the management of the new organ. This dispute somewhat impedes progress and increases the difficulties. However, the matter is not so pressing, as the _Freeman_ question is again postponed for another fortnight. I expect to make a satisfactory arrangement about my _Freeman_ shares, under which I shall lose nothing by them. Kerr is making progress in getting up a small company to buy a steamer, and I think he may succeed.
I have been very much bored, as I am obliged to remain in the hotel all day every day, waiting to see people who may call about the different undertakings. I wonder whether you have been driving at all, and how the eyes are, and how you have been doing. You have not written to tell me.--With much love,
MORRISON'S HOTEL, DUBLIN, _Monday, September_ 7, 1801
MY OWN WIFIE,--I have told Kerr that he cannot have any of the first thousand, so he is going to manage without it for the present, so you may reckon on that amount
The bank was to have given me that sum to-day, but a hitch occurred on Saturday which I removed to-day, and the board will meet to-morrow and ratify the advance.
The trouble about the jealousies of would-be directors on the new board still continues, and have postponed selection till next week--crossing to-morrow night.