Inventory of the Stanley Archives

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , enclosing a note with a cheque "for your steamer in the Lake" , Edinburgh , 24-10-1890

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about the Barttelot-Jameson controversy, May French Sheldon going to East Africa, the undertaking of a railway from Mombasa to Lake Victoria, asking Stanley about his availability for the Board of the British East Africa Co. ("what is wanted is a King, a , Abbey & Holyrood Breweries, Edinburgh , 10-03-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about Stanley's possible going to East Africa, the estimate for the [Uganda] railway , Loch Awe, Argyleshire , 27-04-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , enclosing a "most satisfactory" note from William Mackinnon, on the trek of the Boers into Mashonaland , London , 24-05-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , stressing that "no Report will be issued that has not your full approval", about "that other [EPRE] Report" and the alleged responsibility of William Mackinnon for it , Edinburgh , 13-06-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about Stanley's broken ankle, his prospects for the railway from Mombasa to Nyanza [Lake Victoria], begging of Dorothy Tennant to exercise her "magic influence" over William Gladstone on this subject, complaining about the "parochial minded and never Imp , Dunbar , 09-08-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , "you will have to give a trumpet blast before you leave [for Australia] so that the Treasury walls may fall down and a [Uganda] railway guarantee be secured", denouncing Gladstone's "policy of scuttle" , Dunbar , 24-09-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about William Mackinnon's difficulties, "he perhaps has not the promptness of purpose and resolution he formerly had" , Edinburgh , 01-10-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , about his being "in the depths of despair" over the Uganda railway , Scottish Liberal Club, Edinburgh , 05-10-1891

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , mentioning William Mackinnon's defence of the Established Church of Scotland, Captain Robert H. Nelson's application for East Africa, Arthur J. Mounteney-Jephson's lecture for the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce on Uganda, on the Uganda railway, Imperial B , Abbey & Holyrood Breweries, Edinburgh , 19-01-1892

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , introducing Mr. Belfrage who "will render all the help he can to secure your return for North Lambeth" , London , 22-06-1892

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , regarding Stanley's election defeat , London , 11-07-1892

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , expressing his hope of the British government to take over Uganda, "are the powers of light or darkness to have the upper hand in Africa?" , Oban , 17-09-1892

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , mentioning the struggle inside the Cabinet about Uganda between Lord Rosebery and William Vernon Harcourt , Edinburgh , 07-11-1892

Letter from Alexander Low Bruce to HMS , sending him a copy of Alfred Milner's book on England in Egypt, stressing that "under no circumstances must you be called on to go to the Congo or the West Coast", mentioning Stanley's "Mombasa trip" and his vitalizing the East Africa Company , Edinburgh , 19-12-1892