Inventory of the Stanley Archives (PDF - 1,9

69. WILLIAM BONNY, Autograph Journal of the Rear Column (3 January 1887 -
31 May 1888) ( 3 ), brown calf, ink, 300 pp., oblong 8vo
Detailed daily journal by William Bonny of the formation and early months of the
Column and the misfortunes and mismanagement of the camp at Banalya; including a
few sketches of scarifications
70. WILLIAM BONNY, Autograph Journal of the Rear Column (14 June - 16
September 1888), brown calf, partly disbound, pencil, some in ink, 110 pp.,
some leaves excised, oblong 8vo
William Bonny’s journal of the Rear Column, continued, containing accounts of
Barttelot’s murder (19 July 1888) and Stanley’s return to the camp at Banalya (17
August 1888). Lists of stores, musters of men dead, defected or sick, a few sketches
71. WILLIAM BONNY, Autograph Journal of the Rear Column (7 September
1888 - 8 April 1889), brown calf, partly disbound, pencil, one page in ink, two
pages badly smudged and partly illegible, 170 pp., a few leaves excised, oblong
8vo
William Bonny’s journal of the Rear Column, continued, containing an account of the
last days on the Congo and the beginning of the march with Emin Pasha to the coast,
lists of stores, a few sketches, plans of the starvation camp. Three pages written by
Stanley and signed by him (Your friend Henry M. Stanley) containing instructions
(Starvation Camp in Forest. Dec. 15 th 1888. Observe these notes carefully)
72. WILLIAM BONNY, Autograph Journal of the Rear Column (9 April 1889 - 26
February 1890), in Traveller’s Medical Guide. H.M. Stanley, red morocco,
pencil, 224 pp., many leaves detached, some excised, 8vo
William Bonny’s autograph journal of the Rear Column, continued, containing daily
notes on the march from Kavalli to Zanzibar, also many personal reports, e.g. on the
behaviour of followers, list of loads, etc. Many sketches of implements, weapons,
musical instruments, landscapes, etc.
6. MISCELLANEOUS AND LATER JOURNALS
73. JOURNAL (1841-1879), red half calf, ink, 165 pp., some erasures, one leaf
detached, folio
Composite journal in a chronicle style of some periods of Stanley’s life, roughly
speaking: 28 January 1841 - July 1857, 8 February 1861 - 13 November 1874 and 9
August 1877 - 15 August 1879; brief preliminary notes in Swahili (2 pp.) on Stanley’s
early life from his birth. Entries apparently transcribed at a later date (1893?) from
earlier journals now lost
3 About the purchase of Bonny’s journals, see Stanley’s correspondence with Arthur L. Rayner (nr. 1313).
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