Inventory of the Stanley Archives (PDF - 1,9

G. H. Leane (1), D. E. Davenport (1), John Baker (1), “Miss E.E.C. and Miss S.C. and
Mr. & Mrs. M. with Miss J. included” (1), Baroness von Donop (1), E. C. Stead (1),
“Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress” (1), Henrietta Stannard (1), John Dixon (1), Henry
S. Wellcome (1), Mrs. Harford (1), Mary Amelia Stone (1), Hannah Liebert (1) Count
Paul de Borchgrave (2), Herbert Ward (1), Gertrude Sanford (1), Charles Duval (1),
Major James B. Pond (2), Greenleaf Webb Appleton (2), George Lund (1), Edward
Marston (1), Thomas W. Knox (2), Mrs. Swinburne (1), Emma Fellowes Taylor (1),
[illegible] (1), Dr. Alexander Mackay (1), Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1), Leopold II (2),
Sir Reginald Hanson (2), Smith, Payne & Smiths (1), Lord Wolseley (1) and Messrs.
Taylor, Hoare, Taylor & Box (1)
81. JOURNAL (12 July 1890 - 19 December 1901), black half morocco, ink, 480
pp., several pages heavily cancelled by Dorothy Tennant, 4to
Closely written and extensive account of Stanley’s life from his marriage on (12 July
1890) till the death of Major General Sir Francis de Winton (19 December 1901).
Contains also lists of receipts from lecture tours, newspaper clippings, etc., the whole
apparently transcribed by Stanley at a later date from earlier notebooks now lost
82. NOTES AND DRAFTS (c. 1891), black leather, ink and pencil, 160 pp., oblong
8vo
Miscellaneous autobiographical drafts, particularly for the first chapter of the
Autobiography, also drafts concerning the EPRE, Edmund M. Barttelot and other
officers, religion, African legends, newspapers, European life, etc.; with some sketches
of tents and bridges; also a few entries by Dorothy Tennant
83. NOTES AND DRAFTS (c. 1892), brown leather, ink, 65 pp., oblong 8vo
Notes and drafts for Stanley’s Autobiography, including draft prefaces, drafts
concerning Emin Pasha, Edmund M. Barttelot, religion, etc., a draft of a speech about
his first three expeditions and Stanley’s view of “the white men while at work in
Africa” (39 pp.) and 3 pp. journal entries of a trip to Scotland (August 1892)
84. POCKET NOTEBOOK (1892), black leather, ink and pencil, 34 pp., some
excised, oblong 8vo
Notes and drafts for Stanley’s Autobiography, mainly about his youth and his
adventures in the American civil war; with a few sketches
85. LETTER BOOK containing sponge paper copies of letters by HMS, September
1891 - March 1893, 42 pp., on loose sheets, 4to
Copy-letters from HMS to Alexander Low Bruce (2), W. A. Daw & Co. (2),
Woodhouse, Trower, Freeling & Parkin (1), James B. Pond (1), Walter Trower (2),
Thomas H. Parke (1), [?] (1), Friedrich-Arnold Schumacher (1), Rev. [?] (1), Leopold
II (1), Cecil Rhodes (1), Beauchamp (1) and Comte Paul de Borchgrave (1)
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