Inventory of the Stanley Archives

Letter from HMS to James B. Pond , conditions for accepting a lecture tour the coming winter in the U.S. , London , 25-08-1886

Note: With ink inscription by Pond: "The above proposition is satisfactory and I accept it"

Telegram from James B. Pond to HMS , "come right back and give two hundred lectures" , New York , 24-12-1886

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , accepting the contents of Stanley's letter , London (?) , 26-12-1886

Telegram from James B. Pond to HMS , regarding the British lecture tour, wishing success to the EPRE , New York , 17-01-1887

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , begging Stanley to manage his lectures on his return in Europe and America, mentioning a Miss Greeley as "the best girl (…) that is not married" , New York , 12-04-1889

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , begging Stanley to place all of his lecturing under his management , New York , 17-09-1889

Telegram from James B. Pond to HMS , congratulating him on the EPRE, "Hail Stanley africanus" , New York , 05-12-1889

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , expressing his desire for Stanley coming to the U.S. , New York , 03-02-1890

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , asking him to come back in October and give another 50 or 100 lectures , New York , 07-04-1890

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , enclosing a proposition [not included] "which I consider the greatest offer ever made a man to lecture" , Arts Club, London , 08-06-1890

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , on Mark Twain introducing Stanley's Boston lecture, about In Darkest Africa, the Pullman car, the coming lecture tour , New York , 15-08-1890

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , concerning the coming lecture tour, asking for some photographs, forwarding an invitation from Mrs. Claflin to be her guest in Boston, sending the route [not included] for the first 50 lectures and proposed 50 more , New York , 16-09-1890

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , arrangements for Stanley's arrival in New York , New York , 30-09-1890

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , regarding Stanley's arrival in New York , New York , 16-10-1890

Letter from James B. Pond to HMS , details regarding the forthcoming lecture tour , New York , 17-10-1890