Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873
Person
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
4 letters of David Livingstone, missionary, 2 of which are copies.
File
Identifier: Acc.13333
Dates:
1865, 1871, 1872.
15 letters of David Livingstone to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, with three enclosures to the editor of `The Times`, and various envelopes, copies and other items.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.237- is now Acc.7176.
Dates:
1857-1863.
Comparison of chronometers on David Livingstone`s Zembesi expedition.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8332
Dates:
1858-1863.
Copies of letters between John Kirk and David Livingstone., 1858-1871.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/55
Scope and Contents
Photographic copies of 11 letters, 7 September 1858 – 1 November 1871: nine from Kirk to Livingstone and 2 from Livingstone to Kirk. Relate to the Zambezi Expedition and Kirk's period at Zanzibar. With typescripts of the first two letters from Kirk.
Dates:
1858-1871.
Copies of letters of John Kirk to David Livingstone and others; and copies of letters from H.M. Stanley to Livingstone., 1870-1873.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/56
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a letter from Kirk to Livingstone, 20 October 1870, and of three letters from H.M. Stanley to Livingstone, 20 March, 25 May, and 27 May 1872.
Photocopy of a letter from Kirk to W.D. Hooker, 18 February 1873. Concerns copal specimens.
Dates:
1870-1873.
Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.
File
Identifier: Acc.9468
Scope and Contents
On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.
Includes:
letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book
photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.
Dates:
1857-1874.
Fair copy, 1886, of the journal of James Greig of a hunting expedition in South Africa and Becknanaland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10027
Scope and Contents
Gives impressions of the scenery, games and meeting with missionaries, including David Livingstone.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Four field-diaries, numbered 21, 22, 24 and 26, 1867-1871, and notebooks, numbered 2 and 4, 1850-1854, of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: Dep.343
Dates:
1850-1854, 1867-1871.
Fragment of a letter of David Livingstone to John Murray.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9838
Scope and Contents
Probably the second half of letter number 1645 in "David Livingstone: a Catalogue of Documents" (1979), compiled by G W Glendennen, assisted by I C Cunningham.
Dates:
1865.
Incomplete manuscript, "Livingstone`s Zambezi MS" : the manuscript of the "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries", by David and Charles Livingstone., 1864.
Item
Identifier: MS.42436
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
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Incomplete manuscript, "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries", by David Livingstone; with related proofs and a watercolour sketch.
Incomplete manuscript, "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries", by David Livingstone; with related proofs and a watercolour sketch., 1864-1865.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42436-42438
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1864-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Archive of John Murray, publishers.
/
Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
/
Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
/
Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
Letter of David Livingstone to Colonel Wildman (possibly Colonel Thomas Wildman of Newstead Abbey).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10160
Scope and Contents
Concerns a piece of china.
Dates:
1857.
Letter of David Livingstone to James Hamilton, millwright in Moffat.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9337
Dates:
1851.
Letter of David Livingstone to Mrs Robinson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10741
Scope and Contents
Concerns the Buaze plant, in a copy of Livingstone`s "Missionary Travels" (1857).
Dates:
1861.
Letter of David Livingstone to Professor Richard Owen on the physical resemblences between ancient Egyptians and modern Africans.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12661
Dates:
1857.
Letter of David Livingstone to Richard Thornton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10324
Scope and Contents
Concerns coal and the accuracy of Thornton`s surverying.
Dates:
1859.
Letter of David Livingstone to Robert Mackay Smith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9913
Scope and Contents
Concerning Livingstone`s son Robert.
Dates:
1864.
Letter of David Livingstone to Sir Richard Owen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10916
Scope and Contents
Concerns an elephant tusk and friendship.
Dates:
1857.
Letter of David Livingstone to Sir Thomas Maclear, Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope; with the envelope, and a press cutting of a letter of Richard Burton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14079
Dates:
27 May 1865.
Letter of David Livingstone to Thomas Bazley and James Aspinall Turner, cotton merchants in Manchester.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10712
Scope and Contents
Concerns Livingstone`s plans for producing cotton in East Africa, hoped for collaboration with Portugal, and his reasons for promoting trade.
Dates:
1857.
Letter of Mary Moffat
Item
Identifier: Acc.13200
Scope and Contents
Letter, 1846, of Mary Moffat to her brother`s widow. The letter was written in Kuruman, Africa, where Mary Moffat was stationed with her husband Robert Moffat, missionary. The Moffats` eldest daughter, Mary, had married David Livingstone at Kuruman in 1845, and this letter refers to the birth of David and Mary Livingstone`s son, their first child, six months earlier, and notes the new station Livingstone is establishing. Brief reference is made to Mary Moffat`s feelings about her...
Dates:
22 June 1846.
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