Sent from Launceston, to [Henry Wellcome]

Original letter on headed paper from Joseph Huston Occidental Hotel, Dubbo (in New South Wales, Australia). However, the letter heading is Launceton (Tasmania).

The letter refers to promotional gifts to doctors ("blotting book"), use of the telegraphic code for recording orders, and his thoughts on starting a laboratory in New York: "I have been thinking that if our business is very prosperous we may find it desirable to start a laboratory in NY, for distilling the Hazeline and for making the Equivalent Fluid Extracts. My ambition goes even so high as to hope we may be able to buy or rent Squibbs Laboratory and buy his business."

With small sheet noting the date letter received in London as 7 May, 1883.

14 March 1883

1 file 3 sheets, plus small sheet noting date received.

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust