Inventory of the Stanley Archives (PDF - 1,9

31. COPYING BOOK “no. 6”, marbled wrapper, September - October 1875, 26 pp.,
incomplete, 4to
Copy-letters by HMS to Roswell Smith (1), Edward Marston (1), Emilia Jane Webb
(1), Agnes Livingstone (1) and James J. O’Kelly (1)
32. COPYING BOOK “no. 7”, marbled wrapper, May - June 1876, 87 pp., 4to
Dispatches to the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald, 01-06-1876 (“The Source of
the Slave Trade”), 29-05-1876 (“The Great Geographical Problem”) and 07-08-1876
(“The Solution of the Problem of the Tanganika”). Also copy-letters from HMS to
Edward Levy (1) and Alice Pike (1)
33. COPYING BOOK “no. 8”, marbled wrapper, August 1876, 53 pp., 4to
Dispatches to the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald, 07-08-1876 (continued from
no. 7), 08-08-1876 (“Discovery of the Alexandra Nyanza and Alexandra Nile”) and 13-
08-1876. Also copy-letters from HMS to Edward Levy (1) and Alice Pike (1)
4. THE CONGO FREE STATE, 1878-85
4.1. Journals
34. JOURNAL “Vol. 1. Congo. 1878-82” (January 1879 - September 1882), red
morocco, ink, 502 pp., large 4to ( 1 )
35. JOURNAL “Vol. 2. Congo 1882-84” (September 1882 - December 1884), red
morocco, ink, 494 pp., large 4to
36. JOURNAL “Vol. 3. Congo. 1885-1” (January 1885 - March 1898), red morocco,
ink, 179 pp., large 4to
Including notes regarding the Berlin Conference, the EPRE, Cecil Rhodes, the
Stokes/Lothaire affair, Captain Salusbury
37. JOURNAL “Congo Statistics” (1888-98), red morocco, ink, only 20 pp. text,
with index, large 4to
Notes concerning “Congo Railway. Table of Advance in construction”, “Reciepts (sic)
of Congo Railway”, “White Population of Congo State”, “Shipping on Congo”, “The
Crossing of Africa” (1854-1896), notes on German East Africa, etc.
38. FIELD NOTEBOOK (25 November 1879 - 12 May 1880), brown leather,
pencil, 91 pp., one leaf detached, some excised, small oblong 8vo
Lists of stores, journal entries, lists of birds, and a few pencilled maps and calculations
1 First of a series of four “Congo” journals containing a voluminous narrative of Stanley’s service for King
Leopold II from 1879 to 1898. Journal entries interspersed with transcripts of agreements, documents and
many letters between Stanley, Colonel Strauch, Comte de Borchgrave, Leopold II, etc., and comments on
them; also verbatim records of conversations and meetings. The whole of it written in the form of a current
journal, but apparently compiled later (c. 1897-1898). See also 35 and 36.
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