The ivory issue worries me more and more. I am not forgetting any of the considerations that Your Majesty has deigned to point out to me, but commerce will want to be reassured as to the limits of competition.

All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The Anti-Slavery Conference and the Relaxing Relationship with Leopold II Lambermont On 7 July 1890 about Leopold II who imposed taxes on the ivory trade in the Congolese interior and on the export of ivory., AKP. Archives relating to the external development of Belgium, 72/114, baron Lambermont aan Leopold II, July 7, 1890. De hele brief is opgenomen in bijlage 12.1., 151.