J.P. Lalor, Richmond, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to his or her uncle, Richard Lalor, Tinakill, Queen's County, 23 February 1872
Description
The writer reports that he or she is 15 years old and attending St. Patrick's College, a Jesuit institution in East Melbourne, and learning French, Latin, piano, and drawing. Those subjects suggested to me that the writer was female, but the writer also was "a real sportsman" who loved hunting during holidays with a doublebarreled shotgun.