Sydney, June 15, 1921
I am sending you by this mail a copy of a hymn-book which I have just got out for the use of the Liberal Catholic Church. I do not, of course, suppose that this kind of thing has any special interest for you, but I always feel it a duty to send you specimens of everything that we issue, so that you may know exactly what is going on. This hymn-book does not appear important, but it represents a great deal more trouble and hard work than you would be likely to suppose - work which has extended over three years. I have had to write sixteen hymns for it myself, to add verses to thirty-eight, and doxologies to one hundred and thirty, besides going over every hymn in the book and seriously modifying about nine-tenth of them. If you have time for a glance over the first pages of the Foreword, you will see what I have done with them and why I have done it. I have also had to compose quite a number of hymn tunes to suit the more erratic metres; you will find those in the Musical Supplement, which I am also sending to you. All this is not your line of work, I know, but somebody has to do it, and it seems to have been thrust upon me, just as the compiling of the Liturgy was entrusted to me and to Wedgwood four years ago.