Correspondence

The file comprises:

Letter (23 August, 1900), Berlin, Linkenheil & Co to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, stating "there are no regulations or laws or whatsoever in Germany with respects to experiments for physiological tests."

Letter (23 August, 1900), Paris, Harry to "My dear Joe". Notes the absence of "vaccination laws in France". There is "a general law against cruelty," which "is never put into action in the case of experiments made with an object of public utility."

Detailed typed response (23 August, 1900) from Frederick B Power to a request for "full particulars of any vivisection laws that may exist in America." Prepared by "a competent legal friend" from research conducted at New York State Library, Albany, and brought by hand when Power returned from New York on 5 September. A letter (24 August, as holograph and typed copy) from Power summarises that "there appear to be no restrictions whatever in this country, with the exception of two States."

Letter (24 August, 1900), London, Jeffcoat & Co to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, stating "no laws have been put in force [in France] which bear on this subject [vivisection]".

Translation of letter (28 August, 1900) from Raffo Dalmazzo & Co, Genova, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Original letter attached. States that Italian regulations relating to serums have not yet been drafted.

Letter (29 August, 1900), Paris, Harry to "My dear Joe". Further confirmation that "no laws exist in France on the subject of vaccination or of the control of laboratories."

Letter (17 September, 1900), WPRL, Dowson to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, a covering letter originally accompanying "this my revised draft of the supplement to the petition."

Letter (17 September, 1900), Lausanne, Auguste Mann (Spécialités Pharmaceutiques) to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, stating "there is no law in Switzerland regarding vivisection".

Letter (holograph, 10 October, 1900), The Charterhouse, London, Chune Fletcher to Mr [Collett] Smith, commenting critically on a descriptive account (not attached) of WPRL facilities as "too superlative & puffy & adjectival & adverbial".

Draft text (ts, without title or date) beginning: "Neither has Mr Wellcome any desire to conceal the fact that many of the original investigations...." Two copies (one revised), together with notes in pencil.

Letter (20 November, 1900), Paris, Institut Pasteur to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, stating that it knows of no French laws relating to vivisection or animal experimentation.

Letter (21 November, 1900), Burroughs Wellcome to the Royal Humane Society, together with their reply (22 November), concerning the origin of the Society.

Letter (5 December, 1900), Dowson to Sir Kenelm Digby, Home Office, requesting "a short interview with reference to Mr Wellcome's petition," together with a reply from the Home Office that any further enquiries should be made in writing.

"20th December, 1900. Notes of interview with Mr Fletcher Moulton, QC, this date. Present Mr Chune Fletcher and Mr Smith". Ts copy.

Letter (ts copy, 14 January, 1901), 57 Onslow Square, J Fletcher Moulton to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Advises that "no good will come from pressing the petition" since the Councils of both the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons oppose the application. Advises withdrawing the application and concentrating instead on convincing members of these Councils of the strength of the case.

"L's instructions were to send to the following..." Typed list (beginning: "Clergy ... 9000"). Date-stamped 16 January, 1901.

"Included in letter to Mr Wellcome, dated 25 January 1901". Refers to advice from Fletcher Moulton (see above), noting that Dowson "is disinclined to agree". Refers to Serum Farm buildings being erected by RCP&S at Tooting Bec.

Letter (28 January, 1901), WPRL, Dowson to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, enclosing "extracts from my notebook dealing with my interviews with various medical authorities on the subject of the registration of the WPRL" [4 sheets].

Letter (17 February, 1901), Professor A E Wright, Army Medical School, Netley, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. "I am anxious that no commercial element should enter into the anti-typhoid inoculation, and therefore since my supplying you with the vaccine would give rise to such a suggestion, I am sorry that I shall not be able to do so."

Statement in greater detail of "certain considerations" why Petition should be granted. Ts draft, dated 25 February, 1901. [12 sheets]

Letter progress reports to Henry Wellcome (ts copies), for 1 March, 15 March and 4 April, 1901.

Draft letter (2 April, 1901) to the Home Office, in response to their communication of 21 March, furnishing details of the nature and number of experiments, and persons responsible.

Post Office telegraph (4 April, 1901), from Dowson, referring to the draft reply to Home Office, advising Smith to "postpone letter to Moulton till this worked up".

Further draft of letter of 2 April to the Home Office. Dated 21 May, 1901.

Letter (21 May, 1901), WPRL, Dowson to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, referring to draft letter to Home Office: "It has undoubtedly the right swing about it now, which I feel we owe mainly to the kindness of Sir Michael Foster."

Brief correspondence (July, 1901) on Fletcher Moulton's fees for advice (£5.10.0).

Letter (signed, 5 September, 1901), with envelope, Whitehall, Charles S Murdoch to H S Wellcome Esq: "...in accordance with your request the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, Brockwell Hall, Herne Hill, London S E, have been registered as a place at which experiments on living animals may be performed."

Typed copy of letter from Home Office (5 September), sent to Henry Wellcome in Paris, with Wellcome's annotation: "Very glad / HSW".

Letter (6 September, 1901), WPRL, Dowson to Mr Johnson, Burroughs Wellcome & Co, suggesting that the letter from the Home Office should be acknowledged on behalf of Henry Wellcome.

Copy of letter (27 September, 1901) "signed and posted by Mr Wellcome at Montreux, Switzerland" to the Home Office, in reply to their "esteemed communication of the 5th inst".

1900-1901

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Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust