LETTER, FROM COLONIAL SECRETARY TO SEPTIMUS BURT, APPOINTMENT STATE REPRESENTATIVE COLONIAL CONFERENCE

Handwritten letter dated March 1887 from the Colonial Secretary, Malcolm Fraser, to Septimus Burt appointing him (along with the Hon. John Forrest) to represent the State at the First Colonial Conference in London that year as part of the celebrations of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. The conference ended up running between 4 April and 6 May and was attended by more than 100 delegates from both self-governing and independent colonies. Five other Australian colonies also sent representatives.
Letter handwritten on a single sheet of cream paper using official printed stationary from the Western Australian Colonial Secretary's Office, Perth dating from the 1880s (as evident from the printed portion of the date). The paper has a vertical half fold and the letter is written on the front page and the inside page to the left of the fold.