'Dear Mrs Jones Just to thankyou for your united good wishes - to wish you both a very Happy New Year.'

Archive Collections / Aborigines' Friends' Association / Series AA1/65 / 'Dear Mrs Jones Just to thankyou for your united good wishes - to wish you both a very Happy New Year.'

Image: Portrait of a man and woman in front of a very dark surface. The man is clean shaven and is wearing a shirt, tie and jacket. The woman has her hair pulled back and is wearing a pair of eye glasses.

Annotations: 'Dear Mrs Jones Just to thankyou for your united good wishes - to wish you both a very Happy New Year. Mr Read went to Melbourne last Thursday, & we return home on Friday - we had a very Happy Xmas time at the Mission - & I just feel that God has called us to this life of service - & I feel too that this is why I was spared , & I want or we want our lives to be _____[?] to these dear loveable people. I just wish I had time to write you of all the work - do you know that while I was being operated upon these dear old friends held a Prayer Meeting in the Church - & they gave me a beautiful "welcome home" - the word "welcome" in large letters was put over the arch & welcome flag on the gate - & they had placed flowers in the ___[?] front room out of their own gardens. With our United ____[?] love - we _______[?] your prayers - Yours Gratefully Ethel M. Rea_ [Read?]'. 'Centenary St North Adelaide Jan 1st/22.

Captioned: Photographs depicting Missionaries, Protectors and other Europeans.

This is the same man as in image AA 1/65/4, who is standing on the far left.

Negatives on file: not available

CreatorAborigines' Friends' Association
ControlAA 1/65/3
Quantity 0.1cm,   1   halftone print
Series AA1/65