[…In Sydney it was raining, but Richard did not notice. He hurried to the Hall…] walks across Castlereagh, Pitt and George Streets to Ultimo Road, where he observes the recently-opened Kuo Min Tang building at 75 Ultimo Road. He tucks this away in his mind as a possible plot ingredient. He turns right into Thomas Street, crosses Hay Street, and walks up Dixon Street, where he buys a custard apple at one of the Chinese stores, arriving at the Trades Hall […where the Socialists and Labour people had their premises: offices, meeting-rooms, club-rooms, quite an establishment…] on the corner of Goulburn and Dixon Streets shortly after 9am.

c9.30am - He sees Garden in his office and they discuss the local political situation. […He was very dark, red-faced, and thin, with deep lines in his face, a tight shut, receding mouth, and black, burning eyes. He reminded Somers of the portraits of Abraham Lincoln…] Lawrence questions him, among other things, about the activities of the returned servicemen ("the Diggers") in Sydney, as Garden later told fellow Communist Frank Hardy - a meeting also confirmed by Garden's biographer Arthur Hoyle.

c10am - He leaves the Trades Hall, walks up Goulburn Street and turns left into George Street. […{He} went in silence down the crowded, narrow pavement of George Street, towards the Circular Quay…] He strolls along George Street - Sydney's main thoroughfare - no doubt looking at shop windows, then crosses Liverpool and Bathurst Streets into the heart of the city. He has the rest of the day to fill in before his scheduled meeting with Rosenthal in the late afternoon, though he has probably also arranged to see Hum for lunch.

c10.30 -11.30am - He calls into Dymocks bookshop at 428 George Street, where he buys two new notebooks. (The ones he bought in Ceylon are nearly full.) He peruses the shelves, no doubt to see if any of his books are on display. He is seen, and perhaps accosted, by a young shop-assistant, Frank Johnson, who later tells his friend Jack Lindsay about the encounter (cf. Lindsay's memoir, The Roaring Twenties). Lawrence may have spent some time in the bookshop, perhaps going up to Dymocks' lending library on the third floor. He may even have borrowed a book, thus leaving the store about 11.30am, possibly with a carry-bag containing the two new notebooks, the custard apple, and perhaps a book or two.

c12 noon - He continues his way along George Street, crosses King Street, and arrives at the General Post Office (GPO) in the late morning. Either before or after this he probably crossed over Martin Place to the Cooks office, between Pitt and George, to collect mail or inquire about onward travel to America. (He has already decided to leave on SS Tahiti on August 12, and has told his U.S. contacts this.) He buys some stamps at the GPO, emerging at the Pitt Street end of the building.

c12.30-1pm - He walks back down Martin Place, where he sees a paper-seller on the corner of George Street, and may have bought a copy of The Bulletin for his future reading. […Richard called at the General Post-office in Martin Place…he came out again, and stood on the steps folding the stamps he had bought, seeing the sun down Pitt Street, the people hurrying, the flowers at the corner, the pink spread of Bulletins for sale at the corner of George Street…] He crosses George Street, and walks up Wynyard Street to Carrington Street, where he rendezvouses with Gerald Hum in his Carter & Co office. He may have waited a short time while Hum gets ready, and Hum might have given him a contact for the Kuo Min Tang, which Lawrence notes down in one of the exercise books he is carrying. (Hum is familiar with the local Chinese community, and may have been given a business card when he attended the opening of the Kuo Min Tang building the previous year.) Then they go off together for lunch, hailing a hansom cab outside the GPO and directing the cabbie to take them to the Sydney Domain (aka the Palace Gardens), where they get out near Mrs Macquarie's Chair (a rock-shelf overlooking Farm Cove).