General business correspondence

Various items of business correspondence, including copy letters by Burroughs, manuscript letters in draft (often verso the copy letters), some notes, orders, and some letters received.

Includes:

9 February, 1894. Copy letter from Collett Smith to Burroughs on failing to register the name "Boroline". Burroughs's draft response verso ("This word is so good that I think we should just use it without registering....")

10 February, 1894. H M Stanley to Burroughs. "You are simply too generous. I will bear your kind promise in mind though I don't think I shall call on you often - as I do not meet with many gentlemen on their way to Africa." Stanley then refers to a forthcoming political meeting in Lambeth at which he and Mrs Stanley will speak. "Concerning the 'Democratic' waggon. I think you had better hurry up with it for the Election may be on us at any day." Verso, Burroughs writes to Sudlow and Kirby about his desire "to be of service to Mr Stanley," whose "services to the country will be of utmost value." In particular, the free provision of a "waggon" and the procurement of a team of horses - "perhaps Mr Hertz would lend his team & drive it or Stanley's agent would find a good driver who knows the locality...." (See the letter, below, 9 March, from T Hertz to Burroughs.)

15 February, 1894. Postcard from Burroughs in Tangier, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, together with an apparent cutting from The Lancet in which H M Stanley remarks very favourably on "elegant tabloids". Burroughs suggests getting an "electro" copy prepared, exactly as it appears ("to look just like a cutting in the Lancet") and sending to newspapers across the world. What appears to be a cutting from The Lancet is in fact a copy of the "electro" to which Burroughs refers. There is a small textual difference between the two: the text in The Lancet (3 February, 1894, p. 313) has the fuller phrase "in the form of elegant tabloids coated with sugar"; the (electro) text in the file omits refence to sugar-coating and prints only "in the form of elegant tabloids".

8 March, 1894. Dorothy Stanley to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, thanking Mr Burroughs "for his very considerate offer" (see above, Stanley to Burroughs, 10 February). Mr Stanley has "two Agents under consideration".

9 March, 1894. T Hertz (of Herz & Collingwood) to Burroughs, "very pleased if I can be of any use on this occasion personally with my horses." Relates to "Mr Stanley's election" (see Stanley to Burroughs, above, 10 February).

21 March, 1894. Postcard, Burroughs to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. "Mr Stanley will not be requiring the Democrat Wagon till Election time. I am willing it should be used for Saturday excursions by Employees at Snow Hill or Dartford...."

19 April, 1894 (stamp date). Note on Dr Churcher, Medical Mission, Tangier.

January-April 1894

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