MS&Co Correspondence

Date:
1888-1889
Reference:
WF/E/01/04/25
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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Description

Signed correspondence from Radford & Frankland (SMB solicitors) to MS&Co, and MS&Co to Henry Wellcome.
Includes:
1) Booklet containing printed copies of correspondence, 1887-1888, relating to the Dissolution of Partnership Action Burroughs -V- Wellcome 1888. Mainly corresp between Henry Wellcome & SMB. 50pg with ms annotations.
2) Copy correspondence from 1893-1894 re the possible establishment of the company as a joint stock company and/or Henry Wellcome's purchase of SMB's share of the business [prior to SMB's death]. This series of letters illustrates how SMB did not wih to continue any relationship - business or personal with Henry Wellcome. Correspondence includd SMB, Henry Wellcome, Dr Clark, Chune Fletcher and the respective solicitors.
3) Henry Wellcome's visit to America in 1893
4) Brief letters re. routine meetings between Henry Wellcome and MS&CO [c.1891]
5) A typed and annotated copy of the Judgment from the 1889 court case.
6) Copy questions for the opinion of Counsel ms with annotations.
7) Copy of the Answer of the Defendant to the Plaintiffs Interrogations May 1889
8) Copy 'Case and Opinion' 1889, of Henry Wellcome's legal counsel in regard to the outcome of the case 3pg
9) Copy letter from Henry Wellcome to Same & Ben Fiarchild Apr 1888 re Wellcome's prospects in Burroughs Wellcome & Co [NB FRAGILE]
10) Bundle of Copy Correpsondence between MS&CO and Radfords used by Young in the Wellcome-v-Burroughs case 1889.
11) 2 Copy manuscript letters from Henry Wellcome to Radford & Franklin, dated Mar and Jul 1895 [NB VERY FRAGILE]

Publication/Creation

1888-1889

Physical description

1 item

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Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust

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