Inventory of the Stanley Archives

Letter [draft] from HMS to Edwyn S. Dawes , asking for a few Captains of ocean steamers to recommend to the Belgian Government , London , 20-11-1893

Letter [draft] from HMS to Priestman Bros. , soliciting for engineers to "be consulted about a great national work which it is intended should be undertaken by a Continental Government shortly" , London , 20-11-1893

Letter from HMS to Felix Moscheles , thanking him for the gift of a painting , London , 31-12-1893

Letter [draft] from HMS to [?] , concerning the Freelanders, "I doubt greatly the wisdom of permitting a body of armed whites to obtain a settlement in British African territory" , London , 03-03-1894

Letter from HMS to Evacustes A. Phipson , criticising the Freelanders, calling Theodor Hertzka "a dreamer and a theorist" , Freshwater Bay , 13-03-1894

Letter from HMS to J. H. Graville , "I knew nothing of such a prize being offered at your school" , London , 08-05-1894

Letter [draft] from HMS to Rev. A. B. Grosart , about "the problem of pain", the absence of consciousness to pain of animals, revealing that "in the Immoralities of Man I see the ascendancy of the passions", about microbes, serpents and insects , Dolaucothy, South Wales , 01-11-1894

Letter [draft] from HMS to [?] , "letter of congratulation to Prof. Guido Cora" , s.l. , 14-11-1894

Letter [draft] from HMS to Major Roderic Owen , concerning the treaty between William Mackinnon and the Congo State , London , 23-11-1894

Letter from HMS to Dr. Otto Gaup (from Die Gegenwart) , describing his admiration for Prince Bismarck, "the kind of man best suited for England's needs, but which we shall never have" , London , 01-03-1895

Letter from HMS to C. E. Peek , regarding a fund to undertake the transport of a steamer to the Victoria Lake , London , 14-03-1895

Letter [draft] from HMS to "a young man" , advising him on his future stay in South Africa , London , 19-03-1895

Letter from HMS to Colonel John Thomas North , recommending B. Ewart Gott for employment in the Congo , London , 30-03-1895

Letter [copy by Dorothy Tennant] from HMS to Charles Frederick Moberly Bell , about a Nile river railway, seeing this as the best way to collapse the Mahdi regime , London , 12-05-1895

Letter from HMS to P. Boborykine , "I remember you perfectly as you were 26 years ago at Madrid" , London , 14-06-1895