A reference written in Palmerston in the Northern Territory on 31 May 1871 for James Burton, here presented as a carte de visite
At the time, William Bloomfield Douglas (1822-1906) was Government Resident of the Northern Territory; he had been appointed shortly after 'the return of Mr Goyder's surveying expedition to Adelaide in April, 1870' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Form and context, as well as content, make this an unusual reference: 'These are..... More