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Henry Morton Stanley : journals and notebooks.

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16 archives found

  • 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

  • 74.

    ACCOUNT BOOK ( 1868-1879 ) , black leather, ink , 165 pp. , 8vo

    Highly detailed records of Stanley's accounts from 29 January 1868 (Abyssinian expedition) till 8 June 1879 ("Expedition to Upper Congo"); accompanied by a copy (or the original) of the accounts and a muster roll of the Livingstone Expedition, transcribed in the account book

  • 75.

    ACCOUNT BOOK in Blackwood's Diary 1884 ( 27 August - 31 December 1884 ) , maroon cloth, ink , 28 pp. , most of them excised, some detached , 8vo

    Accounts and a few journal entries, including an offer by James Gordon Bennett to go to Khartoum which HMS declined (30 August)

  • 76.

    LETTER BOOK containing sponge paper copies of letters by HMS , dealing with both the founding of the Congo State and the EPRE ( August 1884 - August 1888 ) , c. 190 pp. , 4to

    Copy-letters from HMS to Antoine Galezot (2), Smith, Payne & Smiths (3), Leopold II (1), Col. Sir Francis de Winton (4), Col. Strauch (2), Edward Virnard (1), "Re Railway Surveyors for Tropical Country" (1), Anton Greshoff (1), [illegible] (1), Count Paul de Borchgrave (4), James Francis Hutton (2), "Re Congo Steamers" (1), William Mackinnon (7), E. M. Mackenzie (1), Commander S.S. Serpa Pinto (1), J. de la Fontaine (1), A. Billington (1), John Rose Troup (2), C. E. Ingham (1), Charles Liebrechts (1), William G. Stairs (1) and the Chairman of the Emin Pasha Relief Committee (1); also despatches dated 09-03 and 31-05-1888

  • 77.

    ADDRESS BOOK, pocket notebook ( c. 1885-1890 ) , 16mo, green leather, ink and pencil , 23 pp.

    Containing among others addresses of William Hoffman, William Mackinnon, Agnes Livingstone Bruce, Dorothy Tennant, Greenleaf Webb Appleton, also a few memoranda

  • 78.

    JOURNAL in a pocket diary Agenda pour 1886 ( 1886 ) , 16mo, black cloth, disbound, ink, a few notes in pencil , 40 pp.

    Journal of a tourist journey to France and Italy, 20 March - 5 May 1886; first page (about John Owen) written in Swahili

  • 79.

    JOURNAL in Lett's Diary N° 3. 1886 ( 18 June - 27 September 1886 ) , green cloth, ink , 20 pp. , first half of the diary excised, two leaves detached , 4to

    Containing a record of Stanley's social engagements, including a note of his first proposal to Dorothy Tennant (14 August)

  • 80.

    LETTER BOOK, containing sponge paper copies of letters by HMS ( May 1886 - January 1887 ) , 110 pp. , on loose sheets , 4to

    Copy-letters from HMS to Gen. Henry S. Sanford (2), Dr. Carl Peters (1), Anton Greshoff (2), Sec. of the Royal Geographical Society (1), O. L. Stephen (1), James Bryce (2), Major Vetch (1), Edward King (1), James Francis Hutton (4), William Mackinnon (2), Anthony Bannister Swinburne (2), Dorothy Tennant (1), Whigh? (1), 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)

  • 86.

    JOURNAL of H.M. Stanley's first days in the House of Commons , sheets torn from a notebook and stapled into 5 gatherings, ink ( 12 - 23 August 1895 ) , 56 pp. , 8vo

    Daily notes containing an account of Stanley's first reactions to Parliament and its members, headed "14th Parliamentary Diary", some annotated in pencil by Dorothy Tennant (an edited version of this journal appeared in Stanley's Autobiography)

  • 87.

    POCKET NOTEBOOK labeled "Notes Emin Expedition" ( ) , ink , 19 pp. , some torn out , 8vo

    Containing various autobiographical notes relating to Stanley's stay in Spain (1869), Edward King, Civil War veterans, education, Christos Evangelides, his boyhood, William G. Stairs and Edmund M. Barttelot, James Gordon Bennett, Emin and Dr. Robert Felkin

  • 88.

    JOURNAL of Stanley's 1895 American journey ( 4 September - 20 November 1895 ) , red leather, pencil , 40 pp. , many excised, one leaf detached, two leaves of addresses loosely inserted , small oblong 8vo

    Containing topographical notes on New Orleans, about Stanley's family, his visits to cemeteries, observations on the indifference of people to him and the "general mediocrity" prevalent in America, etc.