Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 8

** The original item is too fragile to be produced. Please order the microfiche version quoting the reference AMS/MF/182 and AMS/MF/183. **

Letterbook consisting of copies of internal and external letters sent by the head office of Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Snow Hill, November 1901 - February 1902.

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 branch in Sydney. 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.

This letterbook also contains correspondence relating to the establishment by Wellcome of Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum (which would later be named the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories), and correspondence relating to the running of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories. It also includes letters describing the growth of the BW&Co branch in Sydney, in particular the purchase of land to be build a manufacturing outlet, and on the creation of a branch of BW&Co in Cape Town.

The letters to Henry Wellcome himself - written to him whilst he was on holiday - are detailed and offer a good summary of the range of issues covered in the rest of the volume.

1000 pages used. Index as follows:

AYRTON & SAUNDERS 333
AERATORS LTD 359
J A ATKINSON (Traveller, Cairo) 539, 934 (supplying drugs to Anglo-American Hospital, Cairo), 981/2
F A ALCOCK 594

BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO (Dartford) 11/12, 20/1, 27/31, 33, 44/6, 52/4, 58, 71, 91/3, 97, 99, 103, 117/91, 134/5, 144, 150/2, 157, 168, 170, 174, 180, 189/91, 193, 199/202, 212/14, 216/18, 224/6, 230, 245/7, 252, 254/7, 261/4, 275, 283, 288/9, 291, 294/5, 299/301, 313, 324, 326, 332, 335, 339, 352/3, 355/6, 358, 367/8, 373, 389, 392, 397, 418/19, 429, 435/9, 449/50, 469, 471/3, 486/8, 493, 495, 500/3, 512/14, 517, 523/4, 533, 545/7, 558, 564/5, 590/2, 597, 607, 609/11, 618, 622, 637, 645, 647, 657/8, 666, 673, 685, 687, 690/2, 695, 720, 724, 428, 745/6, 748, 756/8, 757/63, 765, 772/3, 776, 787, 789, 808/9, 811, 822, 829/33, 840, 850, 866, 870/1, 880/2, 901/2, 904/6, 908, 911, 917/9, 932, 935/7, 943/9, 964, 971, 976/7, 983/6, 995/6, 998/9
E H BOWERS (See INLAND REVENUE) 13
J F BURNETT (Traveller) 57, 188, 235, 290, 354, 392, 692
A BEVERLEY 70
T E BIBBY 95
F J BRAY 95
H E J BISS 113
Dr C THOMPSON BISHOP 113
BROWN & MURRAY 244
BUTLER BROTHERS 357
A BAINTON (See PROVINCIAL STORE CHEMISTS LTD)
E C BEASLEY 565, 786
G P BLANCHFLOWER (Traveller) 578/9, 678, 678B, 719
A E BRIGGS 595
BOARD OF GUARDIANS (Stepney) 747
BLAKEMORE & CO 756
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & COMPANY (Sydney) 18, 132, 146a, 147/9, 153/4, 231, 233, 322/3, 370, 378/82, 386a, 451, 470, 520, 612/3, 648/9, 676/7, 686/7/9, 723, 807, 868/9, 873/4, 922, 967, 970

F CURRY (Traveller) 14, 17 (securing interviewing with Dr P Manson re equinine), 227, 388, 391, 625 (visiting Italy), 675
James CLARK (Aberdeen) 34, 90, 232, 419
CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY 118
Charles J CHRISTIE 171, 466
CORDER & HAYCRAFT 237/8
CANCER RESEARCH LABORATORIES (See FOULERTON)
Thomas COOK & SON 292
CHURCH & SON 361, 609, 885
LT. COL. J CROFTS (I.M.S) 369
CHEMISTS, MANAGERS & ASSISTANTS SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN 554, 635
A E CRAVEN 623, 907
W S CROUCH 678A
James CURRIE 813

Dr W DOWSON (Director, Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories) 9, 91, 98, 157, 284, 309, 313, 317, 388, 516/7, 634 (re diagnosis work of the WPRL), 849, 962/3, 983
Miss L DERRY 10
William DUNKERLEY (ALLEN ROSS & CO) 47, 718, 904
E E DICKINSON & CO (USA) 177/8
Prof. W R DUNSTAN (Imperial Institute) 215
A DAVIDSON 266
DIXON ELKIN & DIXON 407, 921
J W DRYSDALE 570, 965/6
Miss L C DAVIES 833
DEBENHAM TEWSON FARMER & BRIDGWATER 909/10, 976

EVANS SONS & CO 22, 236
John EVANS 172
Miss O G ENGHOLM 650, 851

A CHUNE FLETCHER 96, 219, 224, 226, 580
J W FOSTER 114
Alex G R FOULERTON (Cancer Research Laboratories) 146, 243
Max FISCHER 155/6
FAIRCHILD BROS & FOSTER 175/6, 465
G B FREEMAN 596

W P GRIFFITH & SONS LTD 173
Arthur GIFFARD (See Pahang Corporation)
GUARANTEE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA 187, 467
Miss GROVER 383
Dr Carlo GIONGO (Raffo, Delmazzo & Co) 463/4
E J GARDINER (Kemp Sons & Co) 542
A H GRACIE 675
GUARANTEE SOCIETY (THE) 819, 987

A J HILL (B W & CO) 72, 171, 399/400, 501, 518, 746, 759/61, 788, 812, 950/1, 995
William LAMMOND HOWIE 88
A E HOLDEN 100/2
J W HULL (Traveller) 145, 390, 466, 534, 563, 969
Maxwell HICKS 248, 293, 314/5, 325, 336, 350
HICKS, DAVIS & HUNT 251, 428, 568, 570
R J HACKSHAW 317, 351
W JOYNSON HICKS (Cheshire) 340
Lt. Col. H N V HARINGTON, Rajputana 371
HADDEN, BEST & CO (See LEIGHTON)

INLAND REVENUE 13
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE (See DUNSTAN)
Holmes IVORY 265

JOHNS SON & WATTS 535

M KRIS (Vienna) 374, 452
KEMPNER & PINNER 504, 566, 606, 777
W KIRKBY 540
W H KNIGHT 580

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL 9, 180, 453, 569
LONDON PAPER MILLS CO LTD 33, 193
T H B LONG (Traveller, India) 56, 158, 228/9, 417, 444, 519, 696/8, 774/5, 875, 968
LINKENHEIL & CO 205, 207, 308, 334, 598, 619/20, 851, 921
LEYTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL (See A F PESKETT)
Dr LE FLEMING 773
Albert LEIGHTON (Hadden Best & Co) 1000

William McBRIDE (Traveller) 15/6 (criticisms of working methods), 659, 859/60
MARKBY, STEWART & CO 32, 73, 310, 393, 636/7, 650, 920, 998
A G A MAJOR 114
MCKINNON, MCKENZIE & CO 267
John MELLANBY 351, 441
J A D MACKEY 555
R MULLAND (Mackey's Electric Lamp Co) 556
G L MOORE 567
C D MOFFAT 624
S MAW SON & SONS 683
MEISTER, LUCIUS & BRUNING 753, 843

George NEWNES LTD 4
F NEWBERY & SON 10, 31, 375, 454, 734
George NEWMAN (Medical Officer of Health) 349

OCEAN ACCIDENT & GUARANTEE CO LTD 192

A E POWELL 70
Dr William R PIRIE (Aberdeen) 86
PONTIFER, HEWITT & PITT 96
PAHANG CORPORATION LTD 179
A L POULTER (London Paper Mills Co) 193
H PAYTON 198, 220
H G PLIMMER 285
PROVINCIAL STORE CHEMISTS LTD 360
MAJ. PIERCE (I.M.S) 372
W PEARSON 373
M F PURCELL 384, 541
J PEMBERTON (London Pharmacy, Herne Bay) 396, 427
PEMBERTON & MALCOLM (London) 401
A F PESKETT (Leyton Urban District Council) 515
H A PINFIELD 553
PATENT OFFICE (Trade Marks) 844
Dr Fr PRÖSCHER 886/7

E W RAVEN (Traveller) 19 (on opening a branch of BW&Co in Cape Town, South Africa), 448, 660, 721/2, 730/3, 858, 867, 978/9
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE: CORPORATION 47, 191, 316, 333, 357, 397/8, 418, 449, 494/6, 518, 597, 605, 638, 665/6, 684/5, 718, 790, 841/2, 852, 961, 980
F A ROGERS (Traveller) 133, 646, 839, 933
ROSS, ALLEN & CO LTD (W A DUNKERLEY) 276, 335
James RITCHIE 287
RAFFO, DELMAZZO & CO (BW&Co Agent in Italy) 311/12, 337/8, 376/7, 408/9, 543/4, 693/4
RICHARDS DRUG STORES 362
ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN 872

H SNELLING 5, 55
F M SYDENHAM 69
William M SELLAR 89
STEVENSON & HOWELL LTD 120
Dr W V SHAW (re employment as Pathologist at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories) 223, 339, 440, 657
J COLLETT SMITH 241/2, 253
SCOTTISH INVESTMENT TRUST (See IVORY)
SIR J S SANDERSON 286 J MCCOUNELL SAUNDERS 297
SELBY 298
SMITH, STANISTREET & CO 442/3, 876
SCOTT & BOWNE LTD 754
Bertrand STEWART (See MARKBY, STEWART & CO)

J TETLEY & CO 206, 903
W E TAYLOR (Traveller) 219, 533
J TURNER & CO LTD (Queen's Ferry) 309, 462, 626, 764, 861

VEREINIGTE CHEMISCHE WERKE 35, 94, 169, 468, 499, 522, 532, 608, 662/4, 755, 883/4, 900, 997
Miss M F VILLARS 223

H S WELLCOME 1/3, 6/8, 23/6 (re compressed cotton wool and bandages), 36/43 (re quality of Lanoline soap), 49/51, 59/68 (on the manufacture of shaving stick tubes), 82/5 (on the report of a Daily Telegraph journalist, who was supplied with a 'Tabloid' medicine chest on a journey "from the Cape to Cairo"), 104/12 (on a beetle being found in one of the "Dervish skulls"; pricing of BW&Co goods in Australia), 115/6, 121/30 (relationship with Linkenheil & Co; on terms of Mellanby's employment at the WPRL; C.J.S Thompson on use of photographs of historic sites in BW&Co advertisements), 136/43, 159/66 (re specimens of 'Tabloid' Tea), 181/6 (relations with Raffo Dalmazzo & Co), 194/6, 203/4, 208/11, 221/2, 239/40, 249/50, 258/60, 268/74, 277/82, 302/7, 318/21, 324a/d (designs for the Laboratories at the Gordon Memoiral College, Khartoum), 327/31 (terms of employment at the WPRL), 341/8 (C.J.S. Thompson with a drawing of possible interest), 355a, 363/6, 385/6, 394/5, 402/6, 410/6, 420/6 (staffing and work at the WPRL), 430/4, 455/61 (proposed reduction in price of Hazeline), 471, 474/85 (on equipping the Laboratories at the Gordon Memoiral College, Khartoum; choosing a site for manufacture in Sydney), 488/92, 497/8, 505/11 ("the monkeys you had sent to the Zoo are still there and doing very well"), 525/31 (manufacture of BW&Co medicine chests in Vienna), 536/8, 548/52, 559/62 (business in Cuba), 571/7, 581/9, 599/604, 614/7, 627/33, 639/44, 651/6 (business in West Indies, 661, 667/72, 679/82, 699/717 (establishment of BW&Co factory in Sydney, Australia), 725/7, 735/44 (work at the WPRL), 749/52, 766/71, 778/85, 791/806 (new chemicals), 809, 814/18 (news from the Zoological Society that Wellcome's Grivet monkey had died), 820/8 (South African branch), 834/8, 845/8 (on C.J.S. Thompson writing a work on Animal Substance Medicine), 852/7, 862/5, 871, 877/9, 888/99, 912/16 (Wellcome brand chemicals price list), 923/31, 938/42, 952/60, 972/5, 988/93
J R WEDGWOOD 11
WELLCOME PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES (The Director) (trials of BW&Co samples) 48, 674, 994
H W WARD-TRINDER 69
WHEATLEY, KIRK, PRICE & CO 75/81, 131, 133, 167, 384
J WHITFIELD 87
John WYETH & BROTHER 197
C C WELD 296
WAR OFFICE (Inspector of Medical Supplies) 387
Charles W WHITE (India) 445/7 (prices of BW&Co products in India), 521, 810
CHARLES E WILDEN 516, 695
WALLER & CO 557
J WAKEFIELD 593
F WILLIAMS & CO 729

N E YORKE-DAVIES 74

November 1901 - February 1902

1 volume

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust