Long-lost letter reveals my ineptitude let down an Australian rugby legend | Barry Glendenning

Lockdown decluttering has led me down a path to the fascinating, well-lived life of a larrikin named Aubrey HodgsonA recent lockdown clear-out prompted the discovery of a semi-skimmed and long-forgotten letter forwarded to me by my mother some years ago; a piece of correspondence she had chanced upon while doing some domestic decluttering of her own. It had been written by my uncle, a former professor of anatomy at the University of Galway, during his days doing the rounds at a Sydney hospital way back in 1978.Writing to my father on the flimsiest of airmail notepaper, with a neatness of hand …