M0008363: Letter of thanks from William Ewart Gladstone to Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Date:
03 November 1941
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/72/93
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M0008363: Letter of thanks from William Ewart Gladstone to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced September 2020: William Ewart Gladstone, with a letter of thanks from him to

Description

Facsimilie of a letter of thanks from William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Prime Minister, to Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. dated 1893. Whilst Prime Minister, Gladstone was presented with a medicine chest fitted with tabloids" of compressed drugs by about 250 employees of Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., London.

Publication/Creation

03 November 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 525638i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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