Inventory of the Stanley Archives

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , congratulating him on his diplomatic labours at the Berlin Conference, informing him of Julian Arnold not being appointed secretary for the Scottish Geographical Society, about the change in political life of England , Edinburgh , 23-02-1885

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , informing him of an invitation by William Frederick Webb, begging of him to use his influence with William Mackinnon to stand for Argyleshire , Edinburgh , 14-03-1885

Letter [copy?] from HMS to Alexander Low Bruce , expressing his anger at the attitude shown towards him in the Scottish Geographical Magazine , London , 24-03-1885

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , on Stanley's new book [The Congo and the Founding of its Free State], "I don't think this generation will ever be able fully to grasp the inestimable value of the work you have accomplished", thanking him for his words about the "old man", about the "New , Edinburgh , 03-06-1885

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , enclosing the second part of his review, "I trust (…) that you are the 'heart breaker' as well as Bula Matari, the stone breaker" , Edinburgh , 14-08-1885

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , thanking Stanley for his letter complimenting painter Robert Gibb, "the task you have set me (…) is one that Livingstone's Grandsons can more appropriately undertake when they reach manhood (…)" , Edinburgh , 20-08-1885

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , criticising Joseph Thomson's address to the Scottish Geographical Society , Edinburgh , 12-01-1886

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , "Mr. [Donald] Beith says if you would only come north" , Edinburgh , 16-03-1886

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , concerning Dr. Robert Felkin's role in the sending out of the EPRE, "privately I learnt that the Govt. was favorable to do something but was afraid of Scotland and the Scotch constituencies lest the Gladstonians would cry out against it", about another E , Edinburgh , 26-12-1886

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about his contribution to the Emin Relief Fund, begging Stanley to make the Scottish Geographical Society "the medium of any communication you may desire to give to the public" , Edinburgh , 07-01-1887

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about the death of Lord Iddlesleigh, Stanley's pathetic letter of farewell, enclosing an application for service in the EPRE , Edinburgh , 13-01-1887

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , informing him of the suspense that his letters of September 1888 had terminated, the laudatory press cuttings to him, speculations as to where he will come out, Germany's colonial efforts in Africa and Portuguese-British relationships, the growing Britis , Callander , 21-04-1889

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , showing relief on his return, about the British plan "to establish civilizing influences (…) from the Cape to Cairo right through the heart of Africa", mentioning Cecil Rhodes's anxiousness to meet him, on the political state of affairs in England, news , Edinburgh , 10-11-1889

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , expressing his desire to meet him in Egypt, list of points he wishes to discuss, his distrust of Cecil Rhodes , Abbey & Holyrood Breweries, Edinburgh , 03-02-1890

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about his recent stay in Cairo, arrangements for Stanley's visit to Scotland, the lack of interest by the British government in East Africa, suggestion of the "Nyassa Tanganyika route" for a small expedition , Edinburgh , 05-04-1890