Inventory of the Stanley Archives (PDF - 1,9

Braconnier (2), Lieut. Harou (2) and Otto Lindner (1); also “Price List & Cost per piece
[at Banana and at Manyanga]”
45. LETTER BOOK ( 2 ), labelled “Letters September 1881 to February 1883”,
secretarial transcripts of letters by HMS, corrected and revised in Stanley’s
handwriting, 232 pp., folio, also index of this volume in 47
Copy-letters from HMS to Col. Strauch (25), Augustus Sparhawk (4), Lieut. Harou (9),
Lieut. Braconnier (3), Anthony Bannister Swinburne (2), Eugène Janssen (2), Otto
Lindner (3), Oscar Roger (2), Lieut. Orban (1), Callewaert (1) and Leopold II (1)
46. LETTER BOOK, unlabelled, secretarial transcripts of letters by HMS to Leopold
II (4) and Colonel Strauch (22), including a “Memorandum of what the Arabs
seek to purchase from us for Ivory”, March 1883 - February 1884, corrected and
revised in Stanley’s handwriting, 184 pp., folio, also index of this volume in 47
47. LETTER BOOK “Letters March 1884 to June 1884 - Index”, secretarial
transcripts of letters by HMS to Leopold II (4) and Colonel Strauch (22),
corrected and revised in Stanley’s handwriting, c. 141 pp., folio, with 42 page
index referring to this and preceding letter books
48. LETTER BOOK containing typed transcripts of letters between HMS and
officials of the Comité or members of the expedition, plus some other
documents, November 1877 - September 1881, revised in ink by HMS, with
autograph title page: “My Congo Letters which gives a true History of the
Congo Enterprise up to 1884”, c. 340 pp., 4to, roughly fastened
Copy-letters from Comte Paul de Borchgrave to Edwin Arnold (1); Baron Solvyns (1)
and Baron Greindl (12) to HMS; HMS to Col. Strauch (36), Edward King (1), Gen.
Sanford (1), William H. Hathorne (1), Robert S. Newton (1), Dr. Hermann Knoblauch
(1), Andries de Bloeme (1), John Kirkbright (2), Augustus Sparhawk (3), Louis Valcke
(1), Lieut. Braconnier (2), Lieut. Harou (2) and Otto Lindner (1); also an “Explanation”
(7 pp. introduction draft in Stanley’s autograph) and documents regarding Stanley’s
contract with the C.É.H.C.
49. LETTER BOOK containing typed transcripts of letters by HMS addressed to
officials of the Comité or members of the expedition, September 1881 - April
1882, revised in ink by HMS, 122 pp., 4to, roughly fastened
Copy-letters from HMS to Col. Strauch (16), Augustus Sparhawk (4), Lieut. Harou (4),
Anthony Bannister Swinburne (2), Lieut. Braconnier (1), Eugène Janssen (2), Oscar
Roger (2), Otto Lindner (2), Lieut. Orban (1), Callewaert (1) and Leopold II (1)
50. LETTER BOOK containing typed transcripts of letters by HMS to Leopold II (2)
and Colonel Strauch (5), March - April 1883, revised in ink by HMS, 44 pp., 4o,
roughly fastened
2 Album purchased by the RMCA (89.27). Enclosed note by Marcel Luwel, 31-08-1987.
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