At any rate, no notice of it was taken
by `Cornhill', and in July of the same year Kendall sent a similar letter
with copies of his verses to the `Athenaeum'. The editor printed
the letter and some of the poems, with very kindly comments,
in the issue of 27th September, 1862.
In October, 1862, before this powerful encouragement reached
the young writer, `Poems and Songs' was published in Sydney
by Mr. J. R. Clarke. `The Empire' published a favourable review.
Further notice of his work appeared in the `Athenaeum' during
the next four years, and in 1866 it was generously praised
by Mr. G. B. Barton in his `Poets and Prose Writers of New South Wales'.
Meanwhile in August, 1863, Kendall was, through Parkes' influence,
appointed to a clerkship in the Surveyor-General's Department
at one hundred and fifty pounds a year, and three years later
was transferred to the Colonial Secretary's Office at two hundred pounds
a year. During this period he read extensively, and wrote much verse.
By 1867 he had so far overcome his natural shyness that he undertook
to deliver a series of lectures at the Sydney School of Arts.
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