General business correspondence

Various items of business correspondence, including copy letters by Burroughs, manuscript letters in draft (often verso the copy letters), and some letters received. Material from the final weeks of Burroughs's life (died from pneumonia, 6 February, Hotel Windsor, Monte Carlo).

Includes:

10 January, 1895. Telegram, from Antibes to Mrs Burroughs, Durrington Lodge, Surbiton. "Send cycle bag and tyres from closet...." Together with a letter from Mrs Burroughs to Mr Davies requesting him to attend to her husband's request.

16 January, 1895. J D Gilbert, West Newington Liberal & Radical Association, to Burroughs, asking if he would be willing to stand in forthcoming London County Council elections. With a response from Burroughs (21 January): "though I would esteem very highly the honour of representing them I am prevented by business engagements and because my health will not admit of any increased demands upon my time."

28 January, 1895. Small bundle of correspondence relating to Nanni, Dalmazzo & Co. Burroughs: "I have carefully considered this matter, and am satisfied it would be a very risky undertaking, and I could not give my consent to such purchase or any plan for establishing our own depot or branch in Italy."

7 February, 1895. Telegram, from Monte Carlo, Mrs Burroughs to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. "Burial Services here tomorrow at three."

February 1895. "List of Books (Mr Burroughs's Personal Library) sent to Mrs B as executrix" [typescript, 6 sheets].

January-February 1895

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