Inventory of the Stanley Archives

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , about his stay at Nyangara Station, mentioning the news having reached him of the massacre of Arthur Hodister and the Katanga Expedition, "I can see here that one fine day some of us will be murdered" , "Expedition the upper Welle Mukua Central Africa" , 19-10-1892

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , describing his arrival at Ndirfi and his expeditions in the neighbourhood, about the Mahdist threat, the trouble with the Egyptians , Gumbiri, Camp of Lufie (?), Central Africa , 11-07-1893

Letter [with envelop] from William Hoffman to HMS , mentioning his having reached the Nile, his fights with the Kuku tribe in order to obtain chop , Labore, On the Nile, Fort Leopold II , 16-08-1893

William Hoffman to HMS , informing him of his safe arrival at Akka , "Poste de Akka" , 04-05-1894

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , about the desertion of his Makrakas at Magora, his move to Mondu and battle with the Dervishes [Mahdists], the necessity to leave the Station , "at the Village of Jomanso, in Rout (sic) for Dungo [Dungu]" , 30-03-1894

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , informing him of his returning home , "Station de Dungu" , 20-07-1894

Letter from HMS to William Hoffman , begging him to look after his money , London , 14-11-1894

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , stressing that his conduct has changed during his stay on the Congo , Brussels , 09-12-1894

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , expressing his desire to go back to the Congo, "africa (sic) is the sort of life for me" , London , 21-01-1895

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , report on "What became of the Rebel soldiers of Emin" , London , 25-02-1895

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , asking Stanley one of his books and a photograph before leaving for Africa , London , 23-04-1895

Letter from HMS to William Hoffman , on the occasion of Hoffman's "third and final" going into Africa , Neath, South Wales , 24-04-1895

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , informing him of his arrival at Boma , Boma , 31-05-1895

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , mentioning his shipping accident above Kimpoko, on the death of Edward J. Glave , Leopoldville , 12-07-1895

Letter from William Hoffman to HMS , describing a fierce battle on the 18th of October with the revolted Batetela soldiers on the Lomami, and another attack upon the revolted on the 6th of November, "such a war has never been in the Congo since it exsist (sic)" , "Zone Arabe Congo" , [November 1895]