Inventory of the Henry M. Stanley Archives Revised Edition - 2005
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Inventory of the Henry M. Stanley Archives Revised Edition - 2005 Peter Daerden Maurits Wynants Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren Contents Foreword 7 List of abbrevations 10 P A R T O N E : H E N R Y M O R T O N S T A N L E Y 11 JOURNALS AND NOTEBOOKS 11 1. Early travels, 1867-70 11 2. The Search for Livingstone, 1871-2 12 3. The Anglo-American Expedition, 1874-7 13 3.1. Journals and Diaries 13 3.2. Surveying Notebooks 14 3.3. Copy-books 15 4. The Congo Free State, 1878-85 16 4.1. Journals 16 4.2. Letter-books 17 5. The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-90 19 5.1. Autograph journals 19 5.2. Letter book 20 5.3. Journals of Stanley’s Officers 21 6. Miscellaneous and Later Journals 22 CORRESPONDENCE 26 1. Relatives 26 1.1. Family 26 1.2. Schoolmates 27 1.3. “Claimants” 28 1 1.4. American acquaintances 29 2. Personal letters 30 2.1. Annie Ward 30 2.2. Virginia Ambella 30 2.3. Katie Roberts 30 2.4. Alice Pike 30 2.5. Dorothy Tennant 30 2.6. Relatives of Dorothy Tennant 49 2.6.1. Gertrude Tennant 49 2.6.2. Charles Coombe Tennant 50 2.6.3. Myers family 50 2.6.4. Other 52 3. Lewis Hulse Noe and William Harlow Cook 52 3.1. Lewis Hulse Noe 52 3.2. William Harlow Cook 52 4. David Livingstone and his family 53 4.1. David Livingstone 53 4.2. Relatives 54 4.2.1. Janet Livingstone 54 4.2.2. John Livingstone 54 4.2.3. John Smith Moffat 54 4.2.4. Robert Moffat 54 4.3. Children 55 4.3.1. William Oswell Livingstone 55 4.3.2. Thomas Steele Livingstone 55 4.3.3. Anna Mary Livingstone 55 4.3.4. Agnes Livingstone (Bruce) 55 4.4. Alexander Low Bruce 60 4.5. Children of Agnes Livingstone and Alexander Low Bruce 66 4.6. The Livingstone Memorial 66 2 5. The Congo Free State 69 5.1. King Leopold II 69 5.2. Cabinet of Leopold II 73 5.3. Belgian Ministers in London 79 5.4. The founding of the Congo Free State 80 5.5. Congo Free State administrators 102 5.6. Congo missionaries 103 5.7. Dutch traders on the Congo 104 5.8. Allegations against the Congo State 108 5.8.1. Philip H. B. F. Salusbury 108 5.8.2. Stokes affair 109 5.8.3. Albert B. Lloyd 109 6. Officers of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 110 6.1. William G. Stairs 110 6.2. Robert Henry Nelson 111 6.3. Thomas Heazle Parke 112 6.4. Arthur J. Mounteney-Jephson 114 6.5. William Bonny 121 6.6. Herbert Ward 124 6.7. Edmund M. Barttelot 125 6.8. James S. Jameson 125 6.9. John Rose Troup 127 7. Emin Pasha 128 8. William Mackinnon and George S. Mackenzie 128 8.1. William Mackinnon 128 8.2. George S. Mackenzie 136 3 9. Edward Marston and other publishers 138 10. James B. Pond and the cases against Pewtress and Appleton 161 10.1. James B. Pond 161 10.2. Cases Pewtress v. Stanley & Appleton and Appleton v. Stanley 165 11. William Hoffman 167 12. Explorers 178 12.1. Verney Lovett Cameron 178 12.2. Sir Samuel Baker 178 12.3. James Augustus Grant 180 12.4. Harry Hamilton Johnston 182 12.5. May L. French Sheldon 184 12.6. Others 187 13. Edward Virnard 193 14. Leonard K. Wilson 196 15. Stanley and Uganda 198 16. Congratulations 199 16.1. Marriage (1890) 199 16.2. Election victory (1895) 200 16.3. Order of the Bath (1899) 201 17. Particular correspondence 203 18. Other letters sent by Stanley 205 19. Other letters sent to Stanley 211 20. Correspondence by other persons 259 4 MANUSCRIPTS 264 1. Dispatches 264 2. Books 264 3. Autobiography 265 4. Livingstoniana 268 5. Speeches and articles 269 MISCELLANEA 274 1. Miscellaneous 274 2. Accounts 285 3. Memorabilia, testimonials, curiosa 295 4. Photographs 304 4.1. Photo albums 304 4.2. Loose photographs 305 5. Scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings 316 5.1. Scrapbooks 316 5.2. Loose cuttings 318 5.3. Press articles 344 P A R T T W O : D O R O T H Y T E N N A N T 347 DIARIES 347 CORRESPONDENCE 352 MISCELLANEOUS 380 FAMILY OF DOROTHY TENNANT 383 1. Gertrude Tennant 383 2. Charles Coombe Tennant 384 5 3. Myers family 384 DENZIL M. STANLEY 385 P A R T T H R E E : Documents bought by the RMCA 387 Addendum 400 Index of persons 403 6 Foreword The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) has always been very interested in archive material (letters, maps, reports) related to exploratory expeditions in Central Africa in general and to the journeys and commissions of Henry Morton Stanley (1841- 1904) in particular. When on 10 May 1954 the museum commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Stanley with a solemn ceremony and an exhibition, it already owned 34 of the 77 items presented. At that time these were principally donations from institutions and private individuals. On the occasion of this celebration, then director Frans Olbrechts contacted Denzil M. Stanley, the stepson of the explorer. A deep friendship developed between them that resulted one month later in a large donation of approximately 300 pieces of memorabilia including some extremely valuable items. After the death of Denzil M. Stanley in 1959, the contacts were continued, now between Richard M. Stanley, the stepson of Denzil, and Mr. Marcel Luwel, head of the history department of the museum. He was given free access to examine and study the archive of Henry Morton Stanley at Stanley’s country estate “Furze Hill” in Pirbright, Surrey. In 1982, this continuing friendship and the lack of interest in England for the life and work of the explorer resulted in Richard declaring that he was prepared to sell to the Belgian state all the inherited paper testimony that was present at Furze Hill. At the proposal of governor R. Lamy, the Société Générale de Belgique and five subsidiaries were prepared to pay the requested amount. The only remaining problem concerned the export licence, but a solution to this was found. The Africa Museum in Tervuren was the logical place to store the collection. To this end the former curator’s residence to the left of the museum was completely renovated and renamed the “Stanley Pavilion”. Particular attention was paid to fire protection, including the installation of fireproof vaults. The building was inaugurated on 24 February 1987 and since then the inherited archives of Henry Morton Stanley have been safely housed here. It was initially assumed that all of the archive items were transferred from Furze Hill to Belgium in 1982. However, in 2000 Christie’s contacted the museum to say that the family - Richard Stanley had died in the meantime – had found 4 more boxes with miscellaneous archive material. After inspecting the items, it appeared that they complemented those purchased previously. This time it was the King Baudouin Foundation that provided the required resources and purchased this second part of the archive. It is referred to below as the Stanley Papers Part II. On 24 November 2002, Christie’s put up the entire contents of Furze Hill for auction. Interesting photo albums and other documents again surfaced, but the high prices being asked meant that only one lot could be purchased, the so-called “Belgian honours” (Stanley Papers Part III). Exactly one year later, a few items that had found no buyer the year before were put up for auction. We were able to acquire three lots (Stanley Papers Part IV). The purchase of these was also made possible by the support of the King Baudouin Foundation. * * * 7 The Stanley Archives located in the RMCA in Tervuren thus consists of three parts: the part that was obtained in 1982 by the Société Générale de Belgique (Stanley Papers I), the parts that were purchased via Christie’s in 2001-2003 by the King Baudouin Foundation (Stanley Papers II-III-IV) and the separate items that were acquired at auctions or presented to the museum during the course of the past half century. The most valuable and extensive part is the Stanley Papers I collection. After its purchase in 1982 by the Société Générale de Belgique S.A., an agreement was reached on 19 February 1987 whereby it was transferred to the RMCA and housed in the “Stanley Pavilion.” In an agreement of 24 January 2003, the entire archives were transferred to the King Baudouin Foundation. A study and inventory of the entire Stanley Archives has been underway for a number of years. In 1990-91, a combination of temporary forces gave the project an initial impulse, with a view toward an exhibition and associated book titled H. M. Stanley. Explorateur au service du Roi (1991). Afterwards, Dr. Jan Goris dedicated himself to the description and identification of the archive material. In 1999, he was succeeded by Maurits Wynants. After the purchase in September 2000 of the Stanley Papers Part II, the King Baudouin Foundation placed the historian Peter Daerden at the disposal of the museum for a period of two years in order to bring the inventorying activities to a proper conclusion. * * * The many manipulations of the totality of the archives by the heirs and the fact that it was divided into parts (see parts I and II) meant that its content, especially the letters, was very cluttered.