Correspondence with John Wyeth & Brother

Correspondence as follows:

11 November, 1886. Wyeth to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Quotes a letter from Lanman & Kemp: "The agent of Burroughs Wellcome & Co has arrived here after visiting Cuba, Puerto Rico etc. It appears that instead of introducing Wyeth's preparations as I had been informed that they are offering the same compressed tablets, elixirs, etc with the name Burroughs Wellcome & Co, the formulas, packages etc being otherwise identical to Wyeths...."

28 January, 1887. Wyeth to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. A long letter discussing the market for compresed pills. "... it would avoid complications and be better for you as well as ourselves, if we could sell you the right to use the machines for Europe, Australia and in short, the countries in which you are allowed to sell these preparations" (p. 2).

29 January, 1887. Wyeth to Burroughs (marked "Personal"), referring to the proposition presented in previous letter.

17 February, 1887. Burroughs Wellcome & Co to Wyeth. Refers to letter of 28 January: "we consider the price you have named as being enormous." [The letter is in carbon manuscript form and as a typed copy. Letter Book 50, p. 576.]

17 February, 1887. Burroughs to Wellcome [a typed copy, from Letter Book 50, Folio 579]. Refers to Strophanthus, and to business with Wyeth. "I am submitting the whole question to Messrs Radford & Frankland expecting to receive their opinion today...." [sheet 3].

16 July, 1887. Burroughs Wellcome & Co to Wyeth [a typed copy, from Letter Book 55, Folio 849]. "We should like to have from you some definite proposition in regard to your new machines. The terms suggested by you while we were in America are not satisfactory to us."

15 August, 1887. Wyeth to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Refers to "strong competition" in both American and UK markets for "compressed goods," accompanied by strong demand. "We put in three or more machines last week, and are now making over five hundred thousand Triturates alone, a day, and have not been able to supply the demand" (p. 1). The letter acknowledges "the machines that you have will not manufacture as rapidly, or with the degree of perfection as the ones that we are now using, but we are not willing to provide you with those machines and give you the privilege of manufacturing our compressed goods for a less price than the terms named by us in our letter to you of January 27th" (verso p. 3).

1886-1887

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