Rare! November 1888 Phonograph Party at Queen Anne's Mansion, London

Colonel George Gouraud, Thomas Edison's phonograph agent in England, is heard here hosting a gathering of dignitaries on Nov. 2, 1888 at Queen Anne's Mansion, about a month after the more famous dinner party at Little Menlo. The three cylinders recorded at this event includes The Earls of Aberdeen and Meath, Lord Vigenfield, Sir John Fowler (engineer of Britian's Forth Railway Bridge), Sir William Wilson Hunter(historian and author of The Imperial Gazetteer of India), Sir Morell MacKenzie (Physician and pioneer of Laryngology), and Roland Protheroe (an Agricultural expert). London's Queen Anne's Mansion (as seen in the visual), was also the contemporary home of Sir John Fowler. As the less famous of the two phonograph dinner parties Gouraud hosted, this recording is a rarely heard or documented artifact.

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