| Description | Album covering the period September 1893 to October 1894, containing letters, invitations, photographs, programmes and cuttings from newspapers recording the Earl's public life during this portion of the Earl's governorship.
This album details the coverage the Governor and his family received in the press during the period of uncertainty leading up to his departure on 2 November 1893 on six months leave of absence to visit his estates in Scotland and his return to Australia to fulfil his period as Governor.
The photographs in the album are mainly Australian outback scenes. There are also several photographs from Java and Fiji, which the Earl visited on his return voyage in 1894, including a portrait of the grand-niece of the late king of Fiji and portraits of Fijians and Samoans.
The enclosed letters include a letter from Charles Kingston, premier of South Australia, thanking Lord Kintore for his assistance with the conciliation legislation, 17 July 1894.
The album also includes political cartoons, theatre programmes, and various items of ephemera.
Landscape folio album, bound in green half morocco,, title on spine "Adelaide Sept. 1893 - Oct. 1893" [sic] |