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THOMSON, Joseph Letters 1882-92, including: five letters of 1882 giving detailed recommendations and information on costs for proposed expedition to Kilimanjaro and Lake Victoria; Zanzibar, Jan. 29 and Feb. 26 1883 reports on arrival in Africa and plans for proceeding; Taveta, July 5 1883, report on progress; eight letters of 1884 from Scotland chiefly concerning preparation of observations and narrative for publication and with comments from Greenock, 'Sunday' (?Dec.) on H.M. Stanley's reception in Scotland; Paris, Dec. 1 1886, on the proposed Emin Pasha Relief expedition. Accompanied by other documents; printed copies of letters of March and November 1882 and February 1883; letters from the Foreign Office to the RGS about Thomson's 1883 expedition; telegrams from E. Africa concerning Thomson's movements in 1883 and two telegrams from Paris 1886 concerning Emin Pasha relief expedition; letters from brother, 1895-96, and from nephew, 1901

Contains: Letters from Georg Schweinfurth; Rochus Schmidt, Chief of the Schutztruppe; Frhr. v. Gravenreuth; Dr. Stuhlmann; Betti Anlinger; Alfred Kirchhoff; Kichelmann; Ferdinand Frhr. v. Richthofen, Chairman of the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde.

Photocopies of letters to C. Geigler, Chief of Sudan Telegraphs at Khartoum, and to others, 1855-92, from S. W. Baker, R. F. Burton, Romolo Gessi, J. A. Grant, David Livingstone, C. Chaille Long, E. Schnitzer (Emin Pasha) and H. M. Stanley. Photocopies of 17 letters 1873-84 from Colonel C. G. Gordon to S. W. Baker and others.

Collection of news cuttings from American and English newspapers on African subjects, and especially the Emin Pasha Expedition, made by Mrs Rose-Troup 1889-96.

Large bound newscuttings book re Emin Pasha (some Arctic items). Video of Sir Colville Barclay speaking about his grandfather, Herbert Ward.

• 1887 - 1898, Saxon State Archives description: Contains and others: Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica - 38th Assembly of German Philologists and Schoolmen in Giessen 1885 - Congress for Hygiene and Demography 1887 in Vienna, Professor Franz Hofmann - Overbeck: Atlas of Greek Art Mythology, fifth delivery Excavations in Olympia, delivery of the duplicates to Saxony, expert opinion by Dr. Georg Treu (copy from the files of the General Directorate of the Royal Collections for Art and Science in Dresden, Cap. 5 No. 10 Bl. 50) with a list of the objects obtained for Germany according to Treus Erinnerung - overview of the contents of the planned work on Olympia - Wilhelm His, Nomenclature of Anatomy - Negotiations of the Anatomical Society 1889 - Dr. Carl Pauli: Corpus interiptionum Italicarum - Dr. Otto Zacharias, Founding of a Biological Station for Fisheries - Olympia - The results of the excavations organized by the German Reich - The results of the excavations organized by the German Empire - The results of the excavations are presented in the "Nomenclature of Anatomy". Research of the Trajanssäule (Traianssäule), Dr. Conrad Cichorius - Eduard Wölfflin: Expert opinion on the Thesaurus linguae Latinae - Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl - Alfred Fleckeisen - Congress for Gynecology and Obstetrics 1892 in Brussels - Anthropological zoological congress 1892 in Moscow - Invitation of the University of New York to Saxon architects on the occasion of the World Exhibition 1893 in Chicago, exhibition of a model of the new University Library (p. 111) - International Medical Congress 1893 in Rome, Prof. His, Prof. Birch-Hirschfeld - International Geographical Congress 1895 in London - Subsidy of the Academic Revue - International Medical Congress 1893 in Rome, Prof. His, Prof. Birch-Hirschfeld 4th International Congress for Criminal Anthropology 1996 - German Commission of the Brussels World Exhibition 1897, Dr. jur. J. Gensel, Alfred Thieme, Chairman of the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce, Participation of Saxon Lace Schools - Medical Congress in Moscow 1897 - International Leprosy Congress in Berlin 1898 - Meeting of the International Statistical Institute in St. Petersburg 1897, Professor Miaskowski, Professor Hasse, Dr. Böhmert Eugen Petersen, Alfred von Domaszewski, Guglielmo Calderini: The Marcus Column on the Piazza Colonna in Rome - Special statistics of the German customs territory according to countries of origin and destination. Sale of the library (11.000 books) of the Danish provost Vahl from Norre Alslev by priest D. Short - 3rd International Congress for Applied Chemistry in Vienna 1898 - 4th International Zoological Congress in Cambridge 1898 - Congress for Hydrology in Liège 1898 - Congress for Internal Medicine in Karlovy Vary 1899 Includes among others..: Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica - 38th Assembly of German Philologists and Schoolmen in Giessen 1885 - Congress for Hygiene and Demography 1887 in Vienna, Professor Franz Hofmann - Overbeck: Atlas of Greek Art Mythology, fifth delivery Excavations in Olympia, delivery of the duplicates to Saxony, expert opinion by Dr. Georg Treu (copy from the files of the General Directorate of the Royal Collections for Art and Science in Dresden, Cap. 5 No. 10 Bl. 50) with a list of the objects obtained for Germany according to Treus Erinnerung - overview of the contents of the planned work on Olympia - Wilhelm His, Nomenclature of Anatomy - Negotiations of the Anatomical Society 1889 - Dr. Carl Pauli: Corpus interiptionum Italicarum - Dr. Otto Zacharias, Founding of a Biological Station for Fisheries - Olympia - The results of the excavations organized by the German Reich - The results of the excavations organized by the German Empire - The results of the excavations are presented in the "Nomenclature of Anatomy". Research of the Trajanssäule (Traianssäule), Dr. Conrad Cichorius - Eduard Wölfflin: Expert opinion on the Thesaurus linguae Latinae - Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl - Alfred Fleckeisen - Congress for Gynecology and Obstetrics 1892 in Brussels - Anthropological zoological congress 1892 in Moscow - Invitation of the University of New York to Saxon architects on the occasion of the World Exhibition 1893 in Chicago, exhibition of a model of the new university library (p. 111) - International Medical Congress 1893 in Rome, Prof. His, Prof. Birch-Hirschfeld.- International Geographic Congress in London 1895 - Subsidy from the Academic Review - 4th International Congress for Criminal Anthropology 1996 - German Commission of the Brussels World Exhibition 1897, Dr. jur. J. Gensel, Alfred Thieme, Chairman of the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce, Participation of Saxon lace-making schools - Medical Congress in Moscow 1897 - International Leprosy Congress in Berlin 1898 - Meeting of the International Statistical Institute in St. Petersburg 1897, Professor Miaskowski, Professor Hasse, Dr. Böhmert - Collection "Deutsch-Ost-Afrika" by Emin Pasha and Dr. Stuhlmann - Eugen Petersen, Alfred von Domaszewski, Guglielmo Calderini: The Marcus Column on the Piazza Colonna in Rome - Special statistics of the German customs area according to countries of origin and destination - sale of the library (11,000 books) of the Danish provost Vahl from Norre Alslev by priest D. Kurze - 3rd International Congress for Applied Chemistry in Vienna 1898 - 4th International Zoological Congress in Cambridge 1898 - Congress for Hydrology in Lüttig 1898 - Congress for Internal Medicine in Karlsbad 1899.

journals while with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

`Sketch Plan Showing Position of Emin Pasha's Province with Respect to the Route to Baringo, and the New Lakes Discovered by Count Telecki'. Photocopy of MS original. Later typescript notes by A T Matson. [About 40-50 miles to an inch].

Nov. 1890, Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, F 38, Generalia (place of use: Wernigerode) Oberbergamt Halle. generalia

Contains among other things: 2499: Hertha (tugboat).- 2499: Irma (Ewer).- 2500: Martha (lighter).- 2501: Hilda (Ewer).- 2502: Klara (lighter).- 2503: Lina (lighter).- 2505: Frieda Lehmann (steamer).- 2506: Herma (steamer).- 2506: Wilhelm Lüdke (steamer).- 2507: Bille (barque).- 2508: Dacia (steamer).- 2509: Elfriede (schooner).- 2510: Werra (lighter).- 2511: Ems (lighter).- 2512: Cap Verde (steamer).- 2512: Madeira (steamer).- 2513: Emilie (tug).- 2513: Natilus (tug).- 2513: Nautilus (tug).- 2514: Kirchwärder (tug).- 2515: Matador (fishing boat).- 2516: Macadonia (steamer).- 2516: Macedonia (steamer).- 2517: Concordia (fishing cutter).- 2518: Ludwig (lighter).- 2519: Roland (steamer).- 2520: Minerva (steamer).- 2521: Astronomer (steamer).- 2522: Deutsche Warte (lighter).- 2523: Brilliant (fishing cutter).- 2524: Industry (schooner galiote).- 2525: Betraud (bark) - 2526: Abessinia (steamer) - 2527: Bergedorf (steamer) - 2528: August (lighter) - 2528: Bertha Kiehn (lighter).- 2529: Emma (steamer) - 2530: Kollmar (Besanewer) - 2531: Epe (steamer) - 2532: Emil Kirdorf (steamer) - 2532: Heimfeld (steamer) - 2533: Gudrun (barque).- 2534: Ellerbek (Bark).- 2534: Emin Pascha (Bark).- 2535: Marco Polo (Bark).- 2536: Hermann (motor sailer).- 2537: Pylos (steamer).- 2538: Marie Paulig (steamer).- 2539: Pontos (steamer).- 2540: Alsterschwan (four-mast barque).- 2541: Kraft (tug).- 2542: Jenfeld (steamer).- 2542: Oyo (steamer).- 2543: Hamburg (paddle steamer).- 2544: Hever (Fischewer).- 2545: Wandsbek (four-masted barque).- 2546: Aeolus (schooner).- 2547: Friederike (Ewerkahn) - 2548: Oceana (steamer) - 2549: Hamburg (steamer) - 2550: Gemma (steamer) - 2551: Uranus (steamer) - 2552: Viganella (barque).- 2553: Octavia (four-masted barque).- 2554: Viola (steamer).- 2555: Portia (steamer).- 2556: Ophelia (steamer).- 2557: Vesta (steamer).- 2558: Nerissa (steamer).- 2559: Olivia (steamer).- 2560: Silvia (steamer).- 2561: Jessica (steamer).- 2562: Cressida (steamer).- 2563: Hedwig Fischer (steamer).- 2563: Ruth Kayser (steamer).- 2563: Sidonie (Besanewer).- 2563: Timandra (steamer).- 2564: Magdeburg (steamer).- 2565: Ernst Woermann (steamer).- 2565: Cameroon (steamer).- 2566: Etruria (steamer).- 2567: Khalif (steamer).- 2567: Naxos (steamer).- 2568: Martha Russ (steamer).- 2569: Denderah. 2569: Lemnos. 2570: Andros (steamer) - 2571: Imbros (steamer) - 2571: Pelotas (steamer) - 2572: Tinos (steamer) - 2573: Imperial messenger (lighter)

Relief of Emin Pasha at Uganda. Further Correspondence. Part III.

Contains among other things: Report of the American Consul R. Dorsey Mohum in Boma Congo Free State on the Death of Emin Pasha, 1895

Contains: Copy of birth certificate Qualification certificate for one-year voluntary military service Certificate of good conduct from the University of Wroclaw

Lists of animals sent to Berlin, letters to the consignments, or corresponding acquisition files.

Teilnachlass: Korrespondenzen, Personalpapiere, Fotos, Niederschriften in arabischer Schrift, Visitenkarten, Originalvertrag mit "Häuptlingen" in Deutsch-Ostafrika, Zeitungsausschnitte

Miscellaneous documents relating to Emin Pasha Relief exped. Copy of translation of letters from the Administrator General Capt. Haneuse and C. Janssen, dated Brussels, 1889. Telegram from Emin to RGS dated Zanzibar May 27 1890 Letter from T. Stevens to Mrs. French Sheldon dated Zanzibar Oct 21 1889. Typewritten comment T.Stevens meeting with Stanley n.d. Ms. copy of Herbert Ward's report on the Emin Pasha Relief Exped Printed map of route of Emin Pasha Relief expedition (Edward Stanford), printed for RGS Stanley Reception Meeting, 1890

The collection comprises correspondence and personal, estate and business papers accumulated by Sir William Mackinnon, predominantly during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The material covers a wide range of commercial, imperial and humanitarian topics, and includes correspondence and papers relating to the British India Steam Navigation Company, City of Glasgow Bank, Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and the Imperial British East Africa Company.

Back from expedition; Stanley's Emin Pasha expedition; photo