Chaplin Cottage
Charles Street
North Syd.
Wednesday

Dear 'Miles Franklin'

Received your M.S. this morning and have more than "skimmed" through it already. Will you pleased write and tell me who and what you really are? man or woman? and something about yourself?, and will you let me keep your story till my publisher s returns from England? He is somewhere on the way now. I believe that you have done a big thing. I've been through the life you write of.
Yours truly
Henry Lawson

The M'Swat &c sketches are perfect, and the Diary and Horace's letter are gems - But I'll finish story this week and write again when you have written.