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Photocopies and microfilms of letters and other documents of and concerning David Livingstone acquired in connection with the David Livingstone Documentation Project.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10777-10780

Dates

  • Creation: 1834-1964.

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

All are freely available for consultation, but further copies cannot be supplied without the written consent of the owner of the original manuscript.

Extent

4 Volumes

Language of Materials

Undetermined

Arrangement

The documents are separated as far as possible according to the method of acquisition, and arranged under each head according to the source, first private owners alphabetically by name, then institutions alphabetically by location. Each section is foliated separately, and the totals of folios given refer to the copies, not the originals.

Other Finding Aids

Lists of the material on microfilm are placed with each film.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Various.

Bibliography

The documents are fully described in the David Livingstone Documentation Project's publication, ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of Ddocuments’, compiled by G W Clendennen, assisted by I C Cunningham (Edinburgh, 1979), and are entered in the index to this volume.
Title
National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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

Contact:
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
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Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700