Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 20

Date:
May - December 1905
Reference:
WF/E/03/20 (copy, part 2)
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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** The original item is too fragile to be produced. The description below applies to the entire original volume, which is now spread across three microfilms (AMS/MF/196-198). Please order all three films to be sure of finding material listed below. **

Letterbook consisting of copies of internal and external letters sent by the head office of Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Snow Hill, May - December 1905.

Topics covered in this letterbook include the day-to-day running of the business, with detailed correspondence with the Burroughs Wellcome productions site in Dartford and also the branches in Sydney, Cape Town and Milan. Iinternal correspondence covers such administrative details as terms of employment and recruitment.

There is also correspondence with Burroughs Wellcome's Travelling Salesmen, such letters include discussion on such topics as sales techniques, the opening of new markets, the threat from rival companies and BW&Co products over which complaints have arisen.

Also included is correspondence with the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories.

A great deal of this letterbook is illegible.

For correspondence between BW&Co and Henry Wellcome during this period see: WF/E/03/01/22.

1000 pages used. Index as follows:

W. ALLARD (Traveller) 33, 34
ALLEN & HANBURY (London) 90 , 426, 665, 738
ARNOLD & SONS w. Smithfield 479
H.E. ATKINSON LD (London) 201, 635
Major B.C. ARNOLD 560
ANDERSON, ANDERSON & ANDERSON (London) 570
J.A. ATKINSON (Traveller) 649/51 (Chloroform 'Wellcome' Brand), 654, 702, 874/5
Mrs ANDREWS (London) 999

BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Dartford) 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 26/29, 31, 32, 39, 41, 42, 46, 57, 59, 44, 70, 71/73, 75/79, 80/71, 88, 89, 91, 96/8, 104/8, 108/111, 112, 124, 127/8, 135, 136, 141, 142, 146, 148, 152, 154, 155, 157, 160, 161, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 176, 177, 191, 196, 197, 198, 201, 203, 2004, 209, 211, 215, 218, 220, 221, 222, 226, 232/3, 234/6, 246, 249, 252/3, 255/6, 259, 560, 261, 267, 272/4, 276, 277, 279, 281, 283/6, 287/90, 291, 292, 293, 294, 304, 319, 3296, 329, 332, 334, 337, 341, 342, 343, 355, 366, 370, 378, 379/383, 384, 391/2, 395, 397, 399, 409, 411/412, 413, 414, 419, 420, 421, 423, 424, 425, 430, 436, 439, 440/43, 444/6, 447, 448, 450, 451, 456/8, 459, 472/4, 495/78, 480, 481, 486, 487, 488, 491, 503, 504, 505, 512, 515/18, 520, 524, 531, 538, 545, 546/9, 552, 553, 556, 557, 573, 574, 577, 578, 579, 581, 582, 583, 584, 589, 591, 592, 594, 598, 601, 604, 607, 608, 616, 619, 622, 624, 626, 628/31, 632, 632/4, 638, 639, 640, 641, 643, 644, 647, 652, 653, 662/4, 666, 667, 669, 670, 672, 674, 676, 677, 680/2, 686, 687, 688, 693, 697/8, 703/4, 705/6, 709, 712, 720, 722/5, 728, 730, 735/6, 737, 746, 755/8, 761/4, 766/771, 772/3, 775, 781, 785, 792/4, 795, 800, 802, 803/6, 807, 811, 813/4, 819/22, 824, 825, 831/6, 837, 842, 843/45, 846/7, 850/2, 854, 856/64, 873, 876, 879, 880, 883, 884/889, 891/4, 896/901, 904, 918, 920, 924/6, 928, 931, 940, 944, 946, 949/51, 977/80, 985/7, 989, 991/5, 1000/1, 1002
BURROUGH WELLCOME & CO (Italy) 173, 174, 175, 177, 197, 200, 207, 211, 216, 229, 230, 280, 292, 294, 298, 300, 312, 320, 325, 326, 334, 336, 337, 340, 341, 350/2, 396, 409, 410, 415, 417, 417, 512, 539, 555, 585, 586, 590, 595, 596, 597, 600/1, 603, 627, 630, 708, 709, 715, 783/4, 846, 849, 890, 905/6, 926, 953/4, 958
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Sydney) 5, 6, 49/56, 81/87, 115/123, 125, 131, 156, 158/9, 178/80, 225, 228, 242/4, 245, 263/5, 301/311, 353, 355, 393/395, 427/430, 459/63, 491, 494/501, 531, 532, 535, 536, 537, 539, 540, 562/3, 565/9, 571, 593, 605/7, 609/15, 644, 645, 646, 689/91, 693, 694/6, 716, 717, 740/5, 747/9, 774/80, 782, 815/7, 865/71, 902, 903, 905, 908, 909, 929/30, 932/7, 939, 962/65
BURROUGH WELLCOME & CO (Cape Town) 9/11, 13, 60/64, 92/94, 114, 115, 136/8, 161/162, 183/189, 222, 228, 247/8, 268/70, 317/20, 323, 364, 365, 400, 407, 437/8, 463/5, 470, 506/8, 540, 544, 575, 576, 593, 620, 623/5, 655/6, 699/701, 717, 750/4, 786/8, 827/830, 877/9, 881, 912/16, 941/2, 969/75
H.W. BARTLETT (Traveller) 25, 170, 237, 284, 441, 591, 711, 739, 794, 812, 947, 955, 987
BANK OF ITALY (Milan) 37, 38
BARCLAY & FRY LD (Beuthwark) 45
BANK OF AUSTRALASIA 47, 221, 316, 461
F.N. BEAUMANN (Milan) 65, 176, 227, 338
Miss Meredith BROWN (London) 199
BANL OF MONTREAL (London) 330
BANG & JEGREN (Copenhagen) 347
Alfred BENZON (Copenhagen) 348
P.J. BREMING (Copenhagen) 349
BRANSON & BRANSON (India) 398
J.E. BOWES (Sydney) 431
W. BAFTER (Bromley) 477
BYREE & EDEY (Bridgetown) 580
Rev. H. BURY (London) 789
J.K. BLACK (Traveller) 797/9 (re interviews with Medical Men carried out in the South of Scotland)
BURGONE BURBIDGES & CO 922
BAISS BROS & STEVENSON 996

Care CAPELLI (Milan) 15
CAIRNCROSS & LAWRENCE (Ontario) 20
R.G.H. COLE (Sydney) 47, 266
C.H.R. CHRISTIE (Traveller) 99, 100, 205, 212, 215, 219, 259, 416, 448, 519, 538, 583, 759
A.B. CARTER (Dartford) 367, 368, 369
Prof V. COBLERTS (New York) 136
C.J. CHRISTIE (Buenos Aires) 679
A. COMYN (Madrid) 774
C.H. CLAYTON (London) 789
CENTRAL BEUREU FOR EMPLOYMENT OF WOMAN 796

M. DALMAZZO (Italy) 14, 17, 18
C.S. DENT & CO (London) 74
Dr A. DENGARDINS (France) 213, 214
Mr E. DEL MAR (Cairo) 239, 241
J. A. DRYSDALE (London) 328, 523
Rev J.A. DUNN (Laisterdyke) 374
C.C. DICKMANN (New York) 467
DAKIN BROS (London) 668, 945
Dr DOWSON (See W.P.R.L)
DAWES & SON (London) 839/40, 872, 939
Wm DANKERLEY (London) 998

L.B. EGELAND (Copenhagen, Denmark) 149 (re 'Tabloid' Photographic Products), 150, 362, 363
EVANS, SONS, LESEKEN & WEBB 713

FAIRCHILD BROS & FOSTER (New York) 7, 58, 166, 257, 258, 321, 493, 956/7
Max FISCHER (Carlsbad) 238, 943
FORST, WARD & CO (London) 455, 542, 938
FOSTER. MCCEELAR & CO (London) 707

GIONGO DALMAZZO & CO (Milan) 68/9, 101
Dr Carlo GIONGO (Milan) 102, 103, 250, 257, 344, 345, 385, 386
A. GUTMANN & CO (London) 181
GUARANTEE SOCY (London) 522
J. GASKELL & CO LD (London) 558
R.S. GRACCIE (Edinburgh) 587, 710
John GRAHAM (Cape Town) 621
GEKE & CO (Dresden) 853

HINTON, HILL & COLES (London) 35, 36, 451, 882, 938
F.W. HOLLAND (Crossby) (Traveller) 40, 439
HUNTLEY & PALMERS (Reading) 126, 140
HILL BROS (Hackney) 133
HOLROYD'S AUTOMATIC MACHINES (See C. Scott) also (R. Whitaken)
F.W. HIGBY (New York) 322
A.B. HECTAR (Sydney) 427, 432, 533/534, 564, 745, 808
HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT NERIS CO (Berlin) 471
HOWARDS & SONS (Stratford) 573, 948
R. HERSCH (Berlin) 525
J.W. HUMPHREY & SON (London) 564
Mrs Ernest HART (London) 602
HERNER & SONS (London) 660
F. HUTH & CO (London) 760
A.J. HILL (Dartford) 849, 940
H. HEBBLEWHITE (Traveller) 976
J.P. HOGG (Paris) 984

INLAND REVENUE (London) 721, 961
INLAND REVENUE (Dartford) 968

KEMP, SONS & CO 8
Thos KEATING (London) 145
W.L. KIRKPATRICK (Traveller, Ireland) 172, 313, 636, 654, 719, 755, 808, 811, 895, 947, 952, 979, 981/3
M. KRIS (Vienna) (BW&Co agent in Austria) 192, ,511, 578, 580, 517, 633, 637, 683, 685, 689, 757, 919, 966, 968
John B. KNIGHT (London) 262
A. KRAKOWSKY (London) 315, 333

LINKENHEIL & CO (Berlin) 22, 147, 193, 210, 449, 637, 958
J.H.B. LONG (Traveller) 24, 74, 111, 112, 175, 201, 652, 647/51, 781, 818, 907, 994
LONDON, CITY & MIDLAND BANK (London) 43, 130, 132, 143, 153, 485, 559, 660, 671, 673, 841, 921, 924
LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 95
L'UNION DES FABRICANTS (Paris) 261, 550, 551, 678, 765, 903
J.H. LUSECOMBE (Canada) 337, 960
F.C.LARGE (Atry) 371
Maris LANG (Austria) 422
M.N. LANDAU (Vienna) 433, 434
Chas. LYMAN (Montreal) 466

A.P. MANFREDI (Milan) 16
MAUS SON & SONS (London) 838
MADDOCKS & COLSON (London) 19
MORGAN CRUCIBLE CO London 855
F. MARRINGTON (Traveller) 21, 55, 71, 189, 208, 278, 294, 372, 424, 492, 618, 678, 730
METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD 89
K.B. MURRAY (London Chamber of Com.) 95
W. MATTHEWS (Traveller) 139, 438
J.H. MOORE (Cape Town) 190, 223, 224, 808, 826
Mr E. MAR, DEL Cairo (See "D")
MARKBY STEWART & CO (London) 356
Dr McCLURE Madras 357
MCKESSON & ROBBINS (New York) 372
R. MAJOR London 376
Mr MAUENSTEIN (New York) 468
C & C MERTON (London) 484
W. McBRIDE (Traveller) 489
Mr MUDDIMAN (London) 658
W. MARTINDALE (London) 659
Prince M. MIRZA (Persia) 727 (on interview with a BW&Co travelling salesman, request for details of a medical man skilled in the treatment of malaria)
Miss G. MEAKIN (re) 759

F. NEWBURY & SONS (London) 144
NADOLNY & CO (Basle) 195
T. NEVIN (Traveller, Canada) 204, 329, 338, 519, 649/51 (on Chloroform 'Wellcome' Brand), 669, 675, 734, 871, 967 (on interviews with Government officials in Canada)
NICHOLSON & CO (London) 231

OCEAN ACCIDENT & GUARANTEE 23, 217, 478, 509, 510, 634, 666, 683, 723, 886, 895, 911, 966, 977

Davis PARKES & CO 202
PILGRIMS & FILS (Brussels) 358/61, 988
C & C.J. PLAGYERS (Rotterdam) 552
PAYNE & CO (Bombay) 692

QUININE (re) (Sent to all travellers, home & foreign, & depots)

Mr C.ROSS (Traveller) 14, 25, 27, 39, 628
W.K. REIKARDS (Damascus) 134
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE 164,226, 267, 272, 275, 300, 335, 530, 399, 604, 622, 62, 661, 633, 801, 810, 848, 990
J. Basie RHODES (Timperley) 295
H. ROBERTS & CO (Florence) 375
REILLEY & CO (Nice) 389
F.W REYNOLDS (Dartford) 684
W. Grahame ROSS (London) 729
Allan ROSS & CO LD (London) 997

C.A. SMITH (Traveller) 24, 227, 312, 505, 521, 554, 555, 572, 647, 648, 649/51 (on Chloroform 'Wellcome' Brand), 785, 809, 923, 954, 999
J.C. SIXSMITH (Traveller) 30, 31, 388, 944
C.R. SYFRET & CO (Cape Town) 113
C. SCOTT (London) 157
STANDARD BANK OF S.AFRICA 191, 271, 436
Henri SANDERS (Amsterdam) 194
H. SADMERSON (London) 254
SCOTT & CO (Paris) 378, 397, 516
John SANGER & SONS (London) 408
SULTAN MIRZA (Persia) 726, 727 (on interview with a BW&Co travelling salesman, request for details of a medical man skilled in the treatment of malaria)

F.J.W. THOMPSON (Staff) 128, 129, 339, 421
G. White TAYLOR (Traveller) 282, 502
C.A. TURNER (London) 377
Mrs TYTE (Reading) 482
W.B.TAYLOR (London) 490
J. TOWNSEND & CO (Exeter) 708
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (Washington) 790 791

V.C.W. (Charlottenburg) 67, 296, 336, 387, 483, 492, 664, 718, 837, 910
C.VINCENT (Sussex) 657
VINOLIA LTD (London) 707

John WYETH & BROS (Philadelphia) 1
M.C. WALLER (Home Office) 171
R. WHITAKER (London) 182
C. WETMERE (New York) 274
WELLCOME PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES (Brockwell Hall, London) 297 (on a complaint re 'Wellcome' Brand Chloroform), 298, 415, 588, 648, 719, 823
C.C. WELD (Edinburgh) 332
WOODHOUSE & WILKINSON (London) 452
A.S. WATSON & CO LTD (Hong Kong) 561
F. WEINTRAND (Falcon Sq) 714
G. WATERSTON & SONS (London) 917
G. WATT (near Devon) 991

Carl ZEIRNET (Cuba) 412

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May - December 1905

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