W Lloyd Williams' Letter Book

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Copy letters of outgoing correspondence of W Lloyd Williams, Works Manager, Phoenix Mills, Dartford, to and on behalf of Burroughs Wellcome & Co (BW&Co).

200 pages used. Typescript and manuscript. Ink very faded.

Correspondence mostly consists of letters and reports by Williams on the running of the Chemical works, including matters pertaining to staff recruitment and wages. Correspondents include Henry Wellcome, Burroughs Wellcome & Co and R. C. Sudlow.

December 1896 - December 1897:
Payment to subscriptions (4); Drug production (9); letters asking and / or giving references (25-27; 64-65; 83); discrepancies in hours of work between permanent and temporary staff in the builders department (29-30); outlay on coal (34); sick pay (37); accounts (38-39, 43-48); redesigning recruitment form (40); BW&Co staff attending Dartford Science and Art classes; on letter from Germany from Linkenheil & Co re quality of BW&Co tabloid products (49-50); letter to applicants re jobs at BW&Co (56-60; 79); to R. C. Sudlow, on quality of malt production, 11 October 1897 (61); on the layout of the new building (66); on the difficulty the of the Compressing Department in maintaining uniformity in the weights of Tabloid products; requesting standard list of preparations (72-77); to Wellcome, on the duties of the analyst (81); report on the engineers department (88-92); to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, December 1897, on the death of Lewis Jones following an explosion at the factory, and aftermath (96-99; 100-102).

1898
Letter to Henry Wellcome suggesting increasing wages in the compressing and granulating sections of the Tabloid Department, 11 March (105-108); to BW&Co re increases in wages , May (111-121); to Mr Sudlow on propsed increases in staff and the effect on the wages bill (152); letters asking and / or giving references (153); to BW&Co on re-classification of wage bands (154-159); reports on staff (160-183);

1899
letters asking and / or giving references (186); letter to Henry Wellcome on the work and management of the Analytical Department (188-191); Memo of conversation with Accountant in reference to his responsibility re wages accounts (201); Letter to Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation Ltd, re changes to accountancy structure (202).

There are instances of letters being removed from the book at Wellcome's instance (eg 15 June 1897, (35-6)).

November 1896 - July 1899

1 Letter Book

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust