Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 21

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Letterbook consisting of copies of internal and external letters sent by the head office of Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Snow Hill, December 1905 - April 1907.

The majority of the letterbook is devoted to the day-to-day running of the business, with detailed correspondence with the Burroughs Wellcome productions site in Dartford and also the branches in Sydney, Cape Town, Milan, Montreal and New York. Iinternal correspondence covers such administrative details as terms of employment and recruitment.

There is also correspondence with Burroughs Wellcome's Travelling Salesmen, such letters include discussion on such topics as sales techniques, the opening of new markets, the threat from rival companies and BW&Co products over which complaints have arisen.

Also included is correspondence with the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories.

For correspondence between BW&Co and Henry Wellcome during this period see: WF/E/03/01/22.

1000 pages used. Index as follows:

J A ATKINSON (Traveller) 152, 277, 797

BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Dartford) 14/16, 18/20, 24, 26, 27, 29/31, 34, 35, 43/5, 47/8, 52/3, 58, 67, 69, 72/3, 75/6, 83/4, 91, 93/4, 98/100, 103, 106/8, 109, 110, 115/118, 119/121, 123/4, 126/8, 129, 131/133, 134, 135/7, 141/9, 150/2, 158, 159, 163, 164, 177/8, 182/3, 185/7, 189/90, 191/2, 194/5, 199, 202, 208, 216
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Montreal) 658, 661, 673/4, 676/7, 709/10, 713, 717/718, 732, 737/8, 752/8, 773/4, 796, 800/802, 809/811, 814, 818, 829, 833/6, 853, 868, 874/5, 879/80, 889/91, 895, 906, 921, 924/926, 939/43, 960, 965, 984, 987, 988
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Sydney) 1/4, 6/9, 33, 36/40, 57, 77/80, 85, 110/111, 114, 130/1, 166/176, 196/7, 210/12, 219/223, 231/7, 240/1, 245/251, 257/259, 271/6, 285/288, 297/300, 307/310, 314/16, 323/6, 333/339, 345/354, 357, 363/371, 375/384, 389/92, 403/16, 419/24, 426/33, 436/7, 439, 443/453, 457/462, 465/470, 475/484, 486/9, 494/7, 499/510, 519/524, 528/534, 541/4, 546/551, 553/7, 564/8, 570/571, 577/8, 582/91, 594/8, 604/8, 611/615, 621/5, 627/30, 632/5, 641/6, 650/3, 662/669, 681/89, 699/704, 719/26, 739/745, 759/760, 775/9, 781/4, 803/6, 819/21, 837/849, 854/865, 881/3, 900/903, 910/15, 930/7, 945/52, 967/77, 989/991
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Cape Town) 10/13, 46, 59/63, 86/91, 134, 181, 200/202, 213/214, 224/8, 260/6, 278/281, 289/293, 303/306, 311/313, 317/319, 327/30, 340, 341, 356, 358/362, 372/4, 385/8, 393/402, 417/418, 425, 434/435, 438, 440/441, 454/6, 463/4, 471/4, 484/5, 490/493, 498, 511/518, 526/527, 535/39, 545, 552, 558/563, 569, 572/6, 579/581, 592/3, 599/603, 609/610, 616/20, 626, 631, 363/8, 647/650, 654/7, 669/70, 690/3, 705/8, 714, 727/31, 746/751, 761/6, 785/791, 807/8, 822/9, 866/7, 884/8, 904/6, 916/918, 953/9, 978/9, 981/2, 992/6
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Milan) 7, 41, 50, 69, 101/2, 122, 196, 198, 205, 218, 228, 230, 253, 355, 442, 688, 696, 698, 774, 780, 813, 814, 836, 892, 899, 921/3, 960/2, 966, 985
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (New York) 678/80, 694/5, 697, 711/713, 715, 716, 733/6, 758, 767/72, 792/5, 812, 815/7, 830/2, 850/1, 869/873, 876/78, 893/8, 907/9, 918/20, 927/8, 938/40, 944, 963/4, 980/1, 983, 986, 997/1000
H W BARNETT (Traveller) 74, 105, 163, 180, 205, 268, 278
F N BAUMANN (BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO, Milan) 207

C H R CHRISTIE (Traveller) 49, 81, 243 (on giving a 'Tabloid' Medicine Case to the King of Portugal's Physician, when forthcoming trip to Lisbon), 269, 275
CROSSLEY-HOLLAND (Traveller) 122

FAIRCHILD BROS & FOSTER 157, 217, 256
FINCH & CO (Switzerland) 179

GREAT INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE PLATE GLASS CO 67

HINTON, HILL & COLES (London) 51
W R HARRISON (Hull) 85
A B HECTOR (Sydney) 322

D L KIRKPATRICK (Traveller, America) 22, 25, 56, 63, 70 (on a recent trip to the USA), 105, 106, 140, 153, 155, 252, 269, 282/3
M KRIS (Vienna) (BW&Co Agent in Vienna) 28, 65, 96/7, 135, 147/8, 206, 215, 254, 301
W F P KIEHL (Paraguay) 71 (on sending samples of plants to BW&Co)
W R KINGSTON 798, 799

T H B LONG (Traveller) 23, 66, 74 (on employing an additional representative for the Indian market), 229, 244, 255, 256, 282/3, 294, 912
LONDON, CITY & MIDLAND BANK 64, 331
L'UNION DES FABRICANTS 95, 161/2, 238/9
LONDON & COUNTY BANK (Dartford) 270
LENNON LTD (London) No page number

F C MARRINGTON (Traveller) 49, 128, 137, 208
MONTREAL, BANK OF (London) 540
T H MOORE 671, 672, 675

T NEVIN (Traveller) 18, 102, 129, 156, 209, 267, 284

OCEAN ACCIDENT & GUARANTEE CORPORATION LTD 32, 124, 203, 242, 342

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE 26, 56, 68, 92, 193/4, 203/4, 288, 302, 320, 321, 332, 343/4

SCOTT & CO (Paris) 17, 188
E A SMITH (Traveller) 42, 54 (on advertising 'Kepler' Solution in Shanghai), 82, 104, 112/13 (on Smith's recent visit to Java), 125, 165, 184, 223, 277, 852
SCHNEIDER & CO (London) 160
W E SMITH & CO (Madras) 295

THOMPSON & TAYLOR (Bombay) 302
J R THOMSON & SONS (Constantinople) 639/40

WITTY & WYATT (London) 21
C W WHITE (Bombay) 109, 296
WELLCOME PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Brockwell Hall) 138, 139, 184
John WYETH & BRO (Philadelphia) 154

December 1905 - April 1907

1 volume

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust