TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISBANE COURIER.
Sir,-I must depend upon your courtesy to allow me in space in your columns for this letter. I wish to deny the authorship of certain silly verses recently printed in Queensland newspapers in association with my name. I wish it to be distinctly understood by the duped editors of the journals in question, that I have never been north of this colony, and that I am not a contributor to Queensland prints. I suppose that the author of the miserable hoax, perpetrated in the verses refered to, intended to be funny at my expense, but I am sure that the editor of the Courier will agree with me in submitting that my friend's joke is a poor thing after all. A parody of my style would have been perfectly legitimate but a forgery extending to a stranger's name is simply an act of impertinence -Yours,
HENRY KENDALL.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, August 4
First published in The Brisbane Courier, 8 August 1868
[Thanks to the National Library of Australia's newspaper digitisation project for this piece.]
