Group portrait including G. H. Reid, Premier of New South Wales, [1897?] and letter to Alexander Waddell from John Jackson Waddell, Aug 14 1841

PXA 685/41-42

series

1841, [1897?]

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

152667

Photographs - 1 albumen photoprint - 21.5 x 28 cm., on mount 26.5 x 31 cm.
Textual Records - 1 item (1 leaf)

41. Photograph: Group portrait (L to R) Sir Wilfred Laurier (Prime Minister of Canada); Mr W. E. Gladstone; Lady Carrington; Mr Richard Seddon (Prime Minister, New Zealand); Mrs Gladstone; Sir George H. Reid (Australia); Lord Carrington; Mr Fielding (Treasurer of Canada)
42. Letter addressed to Alex S. Waddell Esq., Marlborough Road, Old Kent Road, London from John Jackson Waddell, Cloverhill, [Monaghan postal stamp]. The letter concerning family matters mentions "James C Roberts getting out to New South Wales"

The photograph was probably taken during the Queen's Jubilee Celebrations and the Colonial Conference of 1897, possibly at Gwydyr, Carrington's Welsh estate. See `The Australian Premiers in England / by The Right Hon. G.H. Reid, Premier of New South Wales' in The Review of Reviews, Australasian Edition, Sept 15 1897 (pp.296-300) -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, April 1996 (ML 1922/95)

Titled on reverse of photograph