General business correspondence

Includes:

22 April, 1893. London, Borough Polytechnic Institute, to Burroughs, inviting him to serve as President of the Tennis Club. Burroughs's draft response (verso), to Collett Smith, asks his opinion and wonders if it would be "practicable for us to get up a tennis club". See Collett Smith's reply (8 May, attached) and Burroughs's draft letter of acceptance (verso), with which Collett Smith is instructed to "send some papers on the single tax the adoption of which will secure work[,] leisure[,] health & plenty for all who are willing to work in contra distinction to the present system of taxation...."

29 April, 1893. Edinburgh, Wallace Bruce (US Consul) to Burroughs, thanking him for his contribution (Abraham Lincoln).

1 May, 1893. On headed paper of Salvation Army International Headquarters, London, William Booth to Burroughs: "I shall be very glad indeed if you will send me weekly a copy of your Single Tax paper ... You will understand that I am speaking quite as a private individual, & in no way as representing Salvation Army opinions." Requests the paper is sent to private address, Beech Hill, Barnet. [NB a small square has been cut from top edge of letter]

3 May, 1893. Paris, Burroughs to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, on agreements with "Pharmacie Centrale and the other firm." Burroughs concludes by stating that "Mr Wellcome should no longer delay stating what he will agree to[,] as a policy of mere obstruction is very bad for our business & reputation." See also Burroughs's business notes (below, 15 May).

12 May, 1893. Collett Smith to Burroughs, informing that "Mr Wellcome is in favour of obtaining our supply of current from the City of London Electric Lighting Company...." Burrough's replies (verso) that more information is required to compare costs with present gas supply.

15 May, 1893. "Notes submitted for proposed basis of business with Pharmacie Centrale de France by S M Burroughs of Burroughs Wellcome & Co of London." With associated correspondence.

15 May, 1893. Slim note to Collett Smith, on meeting Grant Allen - "I like very much Mr Grant Allen's style of Radicalism & straightforward way of speaking. His are the politics of the future."

22 June, 1893. Letter to Burroughs requesting assistance in "the reduction of the debt on the Crayford Baptist Chapel" - £1 donated (see note verso).

28 June, 1893. Brief list in pencil of photographic chemical supplies required by E J Glave, "for an African expedition."

At Wellcome Collection:

Grant Allen, mentioned in this letter book by Silas Burroughs, is also represented in the archives and manuscripts collection by a letter from Allen to the editor of the Nineteenth Century, held as MS.8625.