Correspondence with Roland V. Vernon, civil servant, relating to a request by Vernon for work as a reviewer of books for the Manchester Guardian, accompanied by internal correspondence discussing the subject. Also included is a letter of recommendation for Vernon from Sir Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor, journalist and historian, suggesting that Vernon might be commissioned by the paper to write holiday articles from Austria. There is an expression of thanks for an article by Vernon on the [use and purpose of Government House] in Sydney, and request that Vernon act as occasional correspondent for the paper in Australia.
GDN/A/V5/2 is an internal employment history index card for Vernon, 1905.
GDN/A/V5/5-8 are reviews by Vernon of In The Two Captains by Cyrus Townsend Brady, Hay Fever by W.H. and G.C. Pollock, An Instinctive Criminal by Gilbert Coleridge, and Beverley of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon in the Manchester Guardian, 1905.