Letter fragment, referring to selling Wyeth goods in Australia and New Zealand
- Date:
- [1882]
- Reference:
- WF/E/02/01/01/26
- Part of:
- Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
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."
Publication/Creation
[1882]
Physical description
1 file 1 sheet.
Copyright note
Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores