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1 On the life of Henry (later Sir Henry) Wellcome, see Robert Rhodes James, Henry Wellcome, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1994. On the Wellcome Trust, see A R Hall and B A Bembridge, Physic and philanthropy: a history of the Wellcome Trust 1936–1986, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
2 See Rhodes James, op. cit., note 1 above, pp. 395–9, for a glossary of selected Wellcome institutions. For more on Wellcome's tropical medicine institutions, and the Chemical Research Laboratories, see L G Goodwin, E Beveridge, and J H Gorvin, Wellcome's legacies, London, The Wellcome Trust, 1998. On an aspect of the Physiological Research Laboratories, see E M Tansey, ‘The Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, 1894–1904: the Home Office, pharmaceutical firms, and animal experiments’, Med. Hist., 1989, 33: 1–41. See also E M Tansey and R C E Milligan, ‘The early history of the Wellcome Research Laboratories 1894–1914’, in Jonathan Liebenau, Gregory J Higby and Elaine C Stroud (eds), Pill peddlers, Madison, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1990, pp. 91–106.
3 BW&Co. will be used throughout the article to refer to Burroughs Wellcome & Co., although the firm was initially styled “Burroughs, Wellcome & Co.”. The comma was removed at some point after Burroughs' death.
4 See the website for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, http://www.bwfund.org/.
5 Wellcome Library (hereafter WL), WF/M/PB/01/01/01, Foundation News for Sept. 1942.
6 Gilbert Macdonald, In pursuit of excellence: one hundred years Wellcome, 1880–1980, London, The Wellcome Foundation, 1980.
7 ‘Report on the Contents of Room 1/10’, unpublished report on the care of the collection by Rosemary Milligan (née Hayes, now Dr Rosemary Hayes-Milligan).
8 On the history of the then Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and predecessor bodies, see John Symons, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: a short history, London, The Wellcome Trust, 1993. A reading of the histories of the various bodies assists greatly in understanding the diverse nature of the records they have left behind. For full information on the WA please see the catalogues at the Wellcome Library.
9 There is a separate series of personal papers for Burroughs at the Wellcome Library, reference PP/SMB, but at present it is uncatalogued.
10 See Milligan, op. cit., note 7 above.
11 On the history of Glaxo, see Edgar Jones, The business of medicine, London, Profile Books, 2001. GSK retained almost all archive material related to Research and Development, and there is hardly any such material in the WFA now held by the Wellcome Library.
12 See, for example, Jonathan Liebenau, ‘The British success with penicillin’, Soc. Stud. Sci., 1987, 17: 69–86. See also Jones, op. cit., note 11 above, p. 66.
13 The Wellcome Trust has its own archivist/records manager, responsible for looking after its records. These are separate from the Wellcome Foundation Archive, and not covered in this article.
14 For more on the archival legacy of Sir Henry Wellcome, and on other records held by the Archives and Manuscripts section of the Wellcome Library, London, see Adrian Steel and Lesley A Hall, ‘Sir Henry Wellcome's archival legacy and the contemporary historian’, Contemp. Br. Hist., 2003, 17 (3): 95–111.
15 On one particular aspect of the collection see Amanda Engineer, ‘Wellcome and “the great past”’, Med. Hist., 2000, 44: 389–404.
16 Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, UK. Access by written enquiry and appointment only.
17 On the dispersal of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, see Georgina Russell, ‘The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's dispersal of non-medical material, 1936–1983’, supplement to Museums Journal, 1986, 86. See also Symons, op. cit., note 8 above, pp. 48–50.
18 Unfortunately, these are very fragile and will require extensive remedial conservation work before they become available to the public.
19 For Burroughs and Wyeth's see WL, WF/E/02 passim (including correspondence on terms of agreement). For Wellcome and McKesson & Robbins see WL, WA/HSW and WF/E/01 passim (such as WA/HSW/ED/B.5). See also Rhodes James, op. cit., note 1 above, pp. 82–3.
20 WL, WF/M/GB/01, Circulars Guard Books (61 volumes) of product literature, 1885–1955, contain material for both products for which BW&Co. were agents, but also for BW&Co.'s own products such as Hazeline, and those made under the “Tabloid” and “Soloid” brands.
21 Macdonald, op. cit., note 6 above, p. 29, points out that “Wellcome's best years in terms of business success were from 1895 to 1920. He was in the driving seat and the company prospered at home and abroad.”
22 Rhodes James, op. cit., note 1 above, pp. 112–13.
23 WL, WF/E/01, HSW papers; WA/HSW passim—HSW correspondence for outgoing and incoming letters on the subject.
24 WL, WF/E/01 LB7, p. 7, letter to Thomas Main, 11 Aug. 1903.
25 WL, WF/L, for various files on the Capper case, including contemporary newspaper cuttings (awaiting full catalogue reference).
26 See WL, WF/L ‘John Roger’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
27 See WL, WF/L ‘Dompe’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
28 WL, WF/M/PB/01/01/01, Foundation News No. 4, Dec. 1942.
29 The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. See also Stephen van Dulken, British patents of invention, 1617–1977: a guide for researchers, London, British Library, 1999.
30 See Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Information Sheet 10, Patent and brandname medicines, 2002.
31 Macdonald, op. cit., note 6 above, p. 116.
32 A run of the magazine is also held separately in the Wellcome Library.
33 WL, WF/E/01 passim (awaiting full catalogue references).
34 Macdonald, op. cit., note 6 above, p. 41.
35 WL, WF/M/PB ‘Trade price list 1895’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
36 WL, WF/M/PB The romance of exploration and emergency first-aid from Stanley to Byrd 1934 (awaiting full catalogue reference).
37 WL, WF/E/01/01/05, pp. 236, 237.
38 WL, WF/M/PR, Explorers press and publicity prints (awaiting full catalogue reference).
39 WL, WF/M/GB/35, four volumes of explorers press cuttings (awaiting full catalogue reference).
40 WL, WF/M/P, ‘Italy: Memoranda [23 Jan. 1907 and 25 Mar. 1912] about the establishment and premises of the Milan Depot, 1905–1911’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
41 WL, WF/M/H, ‘Note of matters omitted from “The History of the Firm” 1910’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
42 Such as WL, WF/E/02, ‘Correspondence 1882–1887’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
43 WL, WF/M/GB/32/01-02, ‘Records of travellers calls (home & abroad) 1881–1887’.
44 WL, WF/E, ‘New York manager's papers (Nevin) 1914–1954’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
45 WL, WF/CA (awaiting full catalogue reference).
46 WL, WF/M/PB, ‘Photographic diaries & handbooks 1902–1955’ (awaiting full catalogue reference).
47 WL, WFA Acc83/2/2; WGA253: Souvenir of the incorporation of Dartford as a municipal borough, 13 Sept. 1933.
48 Macdonald, op. cit., note 6 above, p. 19.
49 Macdonald, op. cit., note 6 above, p. 19. See also WL, WFA: Acc82/1 Box 16; WGA175.
50 WL, WFA: Acc86/98/10; WGA327.
51 WL, WFA: PB/66 (1899).
52 Rhodes James, op. cit., note 1 above, p. 172.
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