Inventory of the Stanley Archives

Prefatory letter from HMS to Sir William Mackinnon , autograph draft , 8 pp. , folio

Autograph draft , with numerous revisions , a few dozen pp. in a secretarial hand, a few printed extracts incorporated in the text, in ink , 950 pp. , folio

Blue Album - Stanley's original sketches for the guidance of the illustrators of In Darkest Africa , approx. 93 sheets of sketches of camp and march scenes, including several of Fort Bodo, topographical views, natives, African shields, paddles, instruments, etc., also 11 original photographs of the EPRE, and a large quantity of proofs of the engraved illustrations to the book, all mounted in a scrapbook, inscribed by Edward Marston to Dorothy Tennant , 20-05-1904 , , large folio, half blue morocco