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Photocopies of letters and documents of and concerning David Livingstone bought from various agents for inclusion in the ‘David Livingstone Documentation Project’ (1979)., [1834-1964.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.10779

Scope and Contents

(1) J R Abbey, Edinburgh (1 letter; 1 folio); (2) Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales (1 letter and other material; 22 folios); (3) Blantyre, Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust (8 letters and documents; 17 folios); (4) Cape Town, Government Archives (3 letters and list of letters; 12 folios); (5) Cape Town, Jagger Library (3 letters and related material; 26 folios); (6) Durban, Killie Campbell African Library (3 letters; 5 folios); (7) Glasgow, Andersonian Library, University of Strathclyde (2 letters; 6 folios); (8) Johannesburg Public Library (5 letters and signature; 15 folios); (9) Johannesburg Public Library, Africana Museum (4 letters and annotated transcript, and 1 document; 35 folios; some presented); (10) Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand Library (19 letters and 2 documents; 64 folios; some presented); (10a) Kew, Royal Botanic Garden (13 letters; 41 folios); (11) Kimberley Public Library (4 letters; 8 folios); (11a) Lisbon, Arquivo Historico Ultramarino (3 letters; 8 folios); (12) London, Church Missionary Society (2 letters; 4 folios); (12a) London, John Murray (79 letters and 9 documents of Livingstone, 168 related letters; 552 folios); (13) London, Royal Commonwealth Society (9 letters: 39 folios); (13a) London, Royal Geographical Society (various items additional to MS. 10780 (5); 25 folios; some presented); (14) London, United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (141etters; 78 folios; some presented); (15) London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (73 letters and documents; 89 folios); (16) New York, American Geographical Society (2 letters, 1 document, and other material; 31 folios); (16a) New York, Union Theological Seminary (1 letter; 2 folios); (17) Nottingham University Library (3 letters; 24 folios); (17a) Oberlin College Library (1 letter, 7 folios); (I 8) Oxford, Bodleian Library (2 letters. 11 folios); (19) Oxford, Rhodes House Library (3 letters; 12 folios); (20) Oxford, Rhodes House Library, with the permission of the owners of the originals, the National Museum, Livingstone (45 letters; 196 folios); (20a) Paris, Institut de France (1 letter; 11 folios); (21) Salisbury, National Archives of Zimbabwe (61 letters and documents; 225 folios); (22) Washington D.C., Library of Congress (1 letter, 1 folio); (23) Copies from various books and periodicals (14 letters; 34 folios).

Dates

  • Creation: [1834-1964.]

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

30 Volumes

Language of Materials

From the Series: Undetermined

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Various. The source of acquisition is recorded in the entry in the Scope and Contents note for the relevent description.

Bibliography

Further details of the content described here are available in the project documents: Clendennen, G W, and Cunningham, I C. ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ (Edinburgh, 1979). Cunningham, I C. ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents: a supplement’ (Edinburgh, 1985).

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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