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Henry Morton Stanley : journals and notebooks.

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6 archives found

  • 67.

    JOURNAL ("Log") of the Rear Column ( 11 June - 20 August 1888 ) , ink and pencil , 37 pp. , folio

    Written by Major Edmund M. Barttelot, continued by James S. Jameson and William Bonny; daily entries

  • 68.

    JOURNAL labelled "Copy of Log of Rear Column. Yambuya to Banalya 1888" ( 11 June - 20 August 1888 ) , black leather, ink , 38 pp. , many leaves excised , 8vo

    Written by Major Edmund M. Barttelot, continued by James S. Jameson and William Bonny, transcript in Stanley's hand. Daily entries, including copies of letters, e.g. Stanley's letter of instruction to Barttelot (24 June 1887), lists of stores, a muster roll

  • 69.

    WILLIAM BONNY, Autograph Journal of the Rear Column ( 3 January 1887 - 31 May 1888 ) , 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; About the purchase of Bonny’s journals, see Stanley’s correspondence with Arthur L. Rayner (nr. 1313)

  • 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. 15th 1888. Observe these notes carefully)

  • 72.

    WILLIAM BONNY, Autograph Journal of the Rear Column , in Traveller's Medical Guide ( 9 April 1889 - 26 February 1890 ) , 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.