Letter by William Heinemann to CJD 1916.08.07

2021 Bedford Street
London, W.C.
7th August 1916

Dear Sir,

I have read with interest, at the suggestion of Mr. Haddon Chambers, your volume "The Sentimental Bloke," and I am so much interested in these poems that I am trying to arrange with your publishers for a special English edition of the book. I should like you to know that I have had great pleasure in reading the poems, and should be glad to arrange to get them a good reception here, though of course the dialect will make their acceptance here difficult. In the event of my being able to make arrangements with your publishers, Messrs. Angus & Robertson, I should be grateful if you would send me some particulars of your own career and a portrait which I could give to the papers.

I need hardly add that I should at all times be glad to know of any book of yours that may be published. It is my hope that I shall get here a sufficiently patient public to oversome the difficulties of the dialect, and if that were possible, I should hope that I might, in connection with Messrs. Angus & Robertson, take up the home market of your works generally.

Believe me, dear Sir,
Yours very truly,
Wm. Heinemann

J.K. Moir Collection, MS 13037 Box 3723/2, State Library of Victoria.