[SYDNEY] The Globe Evening Newspaper and Sunday Times, 78 King Street, Sydney. Luncheon, Printing House Lane, November 12th, 1885.

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[in manuscript] Editor, Express [i.e. J. G. O Connor]. Sir, You are respectfully invited to attend at our Offices on Saturday next, November 14, at noon, to witness the starting of our Machinery on its mission of progress and enlightenment. Yours faithfully, W. H. L. Bailey, Secretary and Manager. Sydney : The Globe Evening Newspaper and Sunday Times, 1885. Invitation card, 95 x 143 mm; lithograph printed recto only in black on cream card; lightly marked, verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born Sydney journalist, printer, and politician. From the ADB: Joseph Graham O Connor (1839-1913), journalist and politician, was born at Dareen House, King s County, Ireland, son of Stephen O Connor, tanner and currier, and his wife Ann, née Graham. At 2 he went with his parents to New South Wales. Educated by the Christian Brothers and at the Sydney College, he was apprenticed to a wood engraver and printer. In the late 1850s O Connor began business as an engraver and printer and in 1860 produced the short-lived Sunbeam for the Catholic Young Men s Society. In 1864 he joined W. B. Dalley, W. J. Macleay and J. J. Harpur in bringing out the unsuccessful Sydney Times, devoted to the promotion of Australian literature and the advocacy and encouragement of native industry . In 1867 he began the Balmain Reporter, one of the earliest subur

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