Inventory of the Stanley Archives

COPY BOOK ( May - June 1874 ) , 46 pp. , incomplete , 8vo

Copy-letters from HMS, written at the Langham Hotel, London, to Robert Rae, Sec. National Temperance League (1), Joseph J. Green (1), J. Housden (1), Jeffrey, Major College Oxford (1), Lieut. Cecil Murphy, Royal Artillery, Aden (1), Joseph Wiggins (1), Nick Nelson (1), "my dear Larrie" (1), Virginia Ambella (1), John Spencer Longden (1), Alice Pike (2), J. R. Partridge (1), Rev. John Conder (1), George Albert Henty (1), A. B. Swinburne (1), Jasper Smith, U.S. Consul Funchal (1), Arthur Laing (1), Agnes Livingstone (1), Richard R. Holmes, Librarian to Her Majesty (1), Messrs. Chapman & Hall (1), William Blackwood & Son, Publishers (1), Smith & Elder (1), Edward Marston (1), Miss Heilbron (1) and John Messenger (1)

COPYING BOOK "no. 3" ( October - December 1874 ) , marbled wrapper , 49 pp. , 4to

Copy-letters from HMS to Edward Levy (2) and Alice Pike (1). Also despatches to the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald, [23-10-1874] and 15-11-1874 ("All about Zanzibar")

COPYING BOOK "no. 4" ( November 1874 - March 1875 ) , marbled wrapper , 87 pp. , 4to

Copy-letters from HMS to Edward Levy (1, also 1 letter continued from no.3), Alice Pike (2, also 1 letter continued from no.3). Also dispatches to the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald, 12-11-1874 and [13]-12-1874 ("A rapid March!")

COPYING BOOK "no. 5" ( May 1875 ) , marbled wrapper , 23 pp. , 4to

Dispatch to the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald, 15-05-1875; also a letter to Alice Pike (misdated 1874)

COPYING BOOK "no. 6" ( September - October 1875 ) , marbled wrapper , 26 pp. , incomplete , 4to

Copy-letters by HMS to Roswell Smith (1), Edward Marston (1), Emilia Jane Webb (1), Agnes Livingstone (1) and James J. O'Kelly (1)

COPYING BOOK "no. 7" ( May - June 1876 ) , marbled wrapper , 87 pp. , 4to

Dispatches to the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald, 01-06-1876 ("The Source of the Slave Trade"), 29-05-1876 ("The Great Geographical Problem") and 07-08-1876 ("The Solution of the Problem of the Tanganika"). Also copy-letters from HMS to Edward Levy (1) and Alice Pike (1)

COPYING BOOK "no. 8" ( August 1876 ) , marbled wrapper , 53 pp. , 4to

Dispatches to the Daily Telegraph and New York Herald, 07-08-1876 (continued from no. 7), 08-08-1876 ("Discovery of the Alexandra Nyanza and Alexandra Nile") and 13-08-1876. Also copy-letters from HMS to Edward Levy (1) and Alice Pike (1)