• Title
  Item 2: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - illuminated address on behalf of Spiritualism in Sydney, presented by the Stanmore Spiritualist Church / artwork by Cooke & Goldsmith, Sydney
• Call number
  PXE 934/no. 2
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [1920-1921]
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  442202
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - watercolour & manuscript illuminated address, 2 leaves on paper mounted on card with 3 oval photographs inset. Bound in black morocco, the cover panelled in gilt with central monogram - 40 x 31.2 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  An address from the committee and members of the Stanmore Spiritualist Church, written within the outline of a map of Australia, with a surround of Australian native flowers, including a kookaburra, a watercolour of Sydney Heads, and a coloured mechanical print of Sydney Town Hall. Committee members: Leader, Eleanor Morrell, President, William Morrell, Vice Presidents, Alex Cooper & John C. Breakspear, Secretary, John K. Bennetts, Treasurer, John Oates. Inset on the opposite page are three head and shoulders oval portrait photographs of the dedicators (2 males and 1 female, presumably Eleanor Morrell) with "ACD" monogram above. The monogram also appears in gilt on the front cover.
• General note
  
  For an account of Doyle's time in Australia see The wanderings of a spiritualist / by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. London : Hodder and Stoughton, [1921]
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824240
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Cook & Goldsmith
  
• Name
  Stanmore Spiritualist Church
  
• Topic
  spiritualists
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3314207

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