Letter fragment, referring to selling Wyeth goods in Australia and New Zealand

A single-sheet fragment (numbered page 6) that refers to the problem of Australian and New Zealand customers buying directly from Wyeth rather than through agents of Burroughs Wellcome & Co: "a retail druggist here to whom I was trying to sell some of the tablets sent his order for 5 gross of them to his agent in Philadelphia instead because he wished to buy from headquarters & thought he could save money by doing so."

Burroughs concludes that the name and address of Wyeth must be omitted from packaging, or "we are simply becoming cats paws & spending our strength[,] time & money to get up a trade which others will supply and leave us out in the cold entirely."

[1882]

1 file 1 sheet.

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust