'Bendles', Buderim.

My dear Mervyn & Daphne

Finding [it] so difficult - no, impossible! to comply with the requests of the enclosed letter. I have in my acknowledgement of it told Mrs Blyth (blowed if I can remember her!!) I would send it on to you in the hope that you would comply with her requests. I'm a bit reluctant to land you with it. Maybe I shall be forgiven.

I don't know her "Down to Earth", do you? Nice title isn't it? MacMillan's have said they are hoping to have the reprint of "The Gardener's Log" out in November: I can only hope they do for unless they cash in on the Christmas sales I have a horrible suspicion they won't sell many. However if they do there is a chance he might consider a new edition of Gardens in Australia. Two requests from Buderim folk have brought both letters from a Sydney secondhand bookseller telling them "yes they have a second hand copy of 'G in A' the price is $15 (!)" Today another friend sent me a similar letter with the slight alteration - "the price is $17!". Should be useful bait for the Macmillan man. Man called yesterday - a friend of Jean Galbraith's. Said he was [...?] in Tasmania and was most impressed with your work at the Airports. Allow me to congratulate you Mervyn dear.

With love Edna.