Bangalore, Goulburn N.S.W.
Nov. 19th, 1899

To Henry Lawson, Esq.,
Sydney

Dear Sir
This is written to ask if you will help me. I will explain. For some years I have been scribbling & have written a book. My trouble is I have lived such a secluded life in the bush that I am unacquainted with any literary people of note and am to hard up to incur the expense of travelling to Sydney to personally interview a publisher on the matter. As for posting a story to them in the hope of it being read, unless one has swell influence one might as well try to sell an elderly cow for a young racehorse - thus I have conceived the idea of beseeching your aid. Perhaps it is a foolish notion as probably you will have neither time