Dear Sir

Words of thanks seem are tame & flat in return for what have done you the trouble you take with for me but I wish you could understand how I feel yr goodness - SoThat you could bother about me so soon in the mid of yr own bis has wiped out a lot of bitterness in one act. Oh I was del when I read the re crity notices of yr new book and when the D. T. de a who colum in an art - Lawson & the billy Boil devoted a whole column to yr rise in London. I felt [?] I must wr & tell you tha my self gratification[?] but feared it would seem bothersome & that I was merely seeking to remind you of the ex my existence.

I rejoice at yr. success most especially it seems [?] being now in the teeth of a great "slump" - in literat- caus by the war. England has not her genial climate so take case of yo-self during the rigor of the hard[?] winter - Rememb Austra has only one Henry Lawson to give to the right[?] tint[?] In her ciruple[?] [N?] [?] has scores of noble(?) pate[?] like Rei[?] & P[?]ait work killing (?) themselves for her good (?).

No doubt from the pass[?] A[?] W U London Aus seems very crder[?] & oh so far away. The wattle are just done and the haze of summer is beginning to veil the hills at sunset. Give my love to Mrs Lawson & the irrepressible "Jimmy" & tell the fr[?] I enclose a few gum lea & a sprig of watt for the former with the respectful infair[?] that are the holly, [?] she does not forget the land of the watt & gum
Dear Sir
Gratefully yrs.
Stella M.S. Miles Lampe Franklin