Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 57
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[Page 57]
be awfully disappointing - Concrerte ships are the latest: same firm to the fore.
I run in & out of No.10. as usual - & Mum & I yarn over old days. It's about as like the days when "the trio" were there as - well - as Baupaume is like Adelaide & I guess that's a difference wide as the poles apart. There's an awful difference in individuals, and oftimes comparisons are more than odious. In this case we prefer earlier days thanks. That's not flattery, its plain straightout criticism!
I heard the other day that somebody had unearthed a Tasmanian native's skull, but haven't heard any verification since. Don't tell anybody because lots of folks might get busy trying to get such a rarity if it really did turn out to be a natives. They're all suppposed to be found - or so I believe. One of these days I'll tell you a creepy yarn re a skull but I've no time now - & I really mustn't fill an espistle with earthquakes & ghost (?) stories.
Do you object to my enlarging your mails with my scrawls? Don't forget to say so - I can stand being told what folks don't like, I often tell them myself.
You may like to know that a London firm didn't accept the would-be authoress's first effort - I didn't think they would - but the criticism is worth having.
Sincerely yours
Ethela R. Hale