Inventory of the Stanley Archives

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , expressing his condolences on the death of the Pocock brothers , Nairn , 02-10-1877

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , concerning the right date of his dinner invitation , Royal Institution of Great Britain, London , 01-03-1878

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , requesting of him to "undertake to connect the Zambezi with the Uelle of Georg August Schweinfurth with the view of ascertaining whether this route is practicable for an overland line of telegraph between the Cape and Egypt" , London , 07-06-1878

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , informing him of Sir Samuel Baker's, Verney Lovett Cameron's and Sir Frederick Goldsmid's opinions on an overland telegraph line in Africa , Nairn , 31-07-1878

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , concerning a lecture by Stanley at Inverness, arrangements for a lecture in Nairn , Nairn , 25-10-1878

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , "I have told our children that you are to bring Kadu [African boy] with you" , Nairn , 02-11-1878

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , "our oldest boy (…) will hear you on the 16th", about Stanley's lecture in Inverness , Nairn , 09-11-1878

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , suggesting him to write a biography of John Hanning Speke, about Speke's observation instruments, arrangements being made for the construction of an overland telegraph line between the Cape and Egypt "and you would assist us materially in carrying out th , Nairn , 26-12-1878

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , inviting him to a reception at the Bristol Hotel , London , [1878]

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , mentioning the wish of Alexander Low Bruce for Stanley to assist in the establishment of a Scottish Geographical Society , London , 16-08-1884

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , news from his wife and oldest son, about General Gordon ("he has been insubordinate all his life and I think it doubtful whether he will leave his post"), concerning the establishment of a Geographical Society in Scotland, "when are you disposed to give , Nairn , 27-08-1884

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , "(…) can you come here to eat your Christmas dinner with our family party today" , London , 25-12-1884

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , inviting him to their family party on Christmas day , London , 22-12-[1885]

Letter [copy] from HMS to James Augustus Grant , about the death of Bombay , London , 14-01-1886

Letter from James Augustus Grant to HMS , showing his approval of Stanley having taken Tippu Tip and forty followers with him ("a grand piece of diplomacy"), stating that the EPRE "will just have a 'walk over' without obstacle of any kind", about the newspapers that are allowed to receive Stanle , London , 26-02-1887