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Single-sheet fragment (numbered pages 5 and 6), with the following headings:<br>
"Re Singapore";<br>
"Re Canvassing India thoroughly" (refers to forthcoming exhibition - ?Calcutta);<br>
"Re samples to Indian Doctors".

Silas Mainville Burroughs Papers

Business correspondence

Correspondence with, and concerning, Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Sent from Bombay, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, and to Henry Wellcome

Sent from various locations in England, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, and to Henry Wellcome

Sent from S S Ceylon, Lisbon, Malaga, Marseilles, Palmero, Constantine, and Alexandria

Various items of business correspondence

Sent from Bombay, to The Fellows Medical Manufacturing Co, New York

Sent from Lahore and Delhi, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Sent from Galle, Colombo, to Henry Wellcome

Colonial Secretary's Office, Colombo, to Burroughs

Sent from Adelaide, to Lanman & Kemp, New York

Sent from Adelaide, to The Fellows Medical Manufacturing Co, New York

Sent from Sydney, to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Sydney, to Smith Stamstral & Co, Calcutta

Sent from Sydney, to [Burroughs Wellcome & Co]

Felton, Grimwade & Co, Melbourne, to Burroughs

Two lists of Wyeth preparations for customers in Sydney and Melbourne

Sent [from Sydney, to Henry Wellcome]

Communications sent from Sydney and Auckland

Sent from Auckland, to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Wai Wera, New Zealand, to J Wyeth & Bros

Notes sent to Henry Wellcome, on "Wyeth's letter on Quinquinia" and other matters

Note: "Re Calcutta exhibition"

Letter fragment, referring to selling Wyeth goods in Australia and New Zealand

Note: "Re Instructions to Travellers"

Letter fragment, to Henry Wellcome, about selling malt

Letter fragment, to Henry Wellcome, about prices of 1lb bottles of malt

Letter fragment, to Henry Wellcome

Letter fragment

Letter fragment, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, concerning Mr Ballantyne

Brief note "Re Elliott's order" and Burroughs's intended movements

Letter fragment, departing for Bombay

Note to Burroughs Wellcome & Co to send Mr Ballantyne, Bombay, copies of magazines

Copy orders for Burroughs Wellcome & Co and Burroughs Wellcome & Co distributed products, to Grimwade Ridley & Co, London

Letter fragment, referring to eucalyptus products, and to Frank Moise

Letter fragment, concerning "modern medicine chests" as a marketing strategy

To Burroughs Wellcome & Co: order for Birks Pharmacy, Adelaide

Note "Re J S Elmore (Merchant), Bombay and London"

Notes on Wyeth's bottles and on labels for Burroughs Wellcome & Co bottles

Order from W H McCarthy and signed agreement between Burroughs Wellcome & Co and McCarthy

Note "Re Rocke Tompsitt & Co, Melbourne" and other matters

Letter fragment, referring to Lundborg and Lanman & Kemp

Sent from Auckland, to Messrs Walter Akhurst & Co, Sydney

Sent from Wellington, to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Christchurch, to [Burroughs Wellcome & Co]

Sent from Christchurch: "Re The Lancet"

Sent from Christchurch: "Re Ad in Chemist & Druggist"

Sent from Christchurch, concerning unsold goods

Sent from Christchurch, concerning Hazeline and Kepler Extract

Note: "Re sample boxes of wood"

[Bundle of pages]

Sent from Invercargill, to Dr Valentine, Medical Mission, Agra, India

Sent from Dunedin: "Re improvement in bottles"

Sent from Dunedin: "Re Fellows Hypophen"

Sent from Invercagill: "Re Kepler Combinations"

Sent from Dunedin, to [Henry Wellcome]

Sent from Dunedin, concerning advice to doctors of new stock

Sent from Hobart, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

[Bundle of letters]

Sent from Launceston, to [Henry Wellcome]

To [Henry Wellcome], concerning "Picture card ads" and a "Family Medical Guide in Emergencies"

Note to Burroughs Wellcome & Co concerning mazgazine subscription gifts

[Sent from Melbourne], letter fragment, concerning Kepler matters

Sent from Adelaide, a telegram to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Sent from Adelaide, to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Adelaide, to [Henry Wellcome]

Sent from Melbourne, to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Ballarat [Victoria], to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Melbourne, to [Henry Wellcome]

[Sent from Melbourne to Henry Wellcome]

Sent from Bombay, to [Henry Wellcome]

Sent from Melbourne, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Sent from Sydney, a telegram to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Written on board SS Australia, in the South Pacific, to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Medina, New York, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, and to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Boston, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

From B O & G C Wilson (Wholesale Botanic Druggists), Boston, to Burroughs

Sent from Medina, New York, to Henry Wellcome

Sent from Medina, New York, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Telegram, sent from Rochester, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Sent from Minneapolis, to Henry Wellcome

Telegram, sent from Medina, New York, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co

Sent from France, Switzerland, Ireland and Denmark

Sent from New York and Boston

Letter fragment, to [The Fellows Medical Manufacturing Co, New York]

Sent from London, Brighton, Margate and USA

Sent from New York, Dublin, Lowestoft, Manchester, Newscastle, Dulwich

Sent from Newcastle, to Burroughs Wellcome & Co, concerning Strophanthus supply

Sent from Glasgow, Bath, New York, Bruxelles, Paris, Marseilles, Barcelona

Sent from Monte Carlo, Cannes, Nice, Bruxelles, Paris, New Haven, Belfast

Henry Wellcome to Burroughs

Sent from Brighton, Flushing, Berlin

General business correspondence

Letter fragment about canvassing India and distributing samples to Indian doctors

Letter fragment about canvassing India and distributing samples to Indian doctors

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