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Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.

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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.

Fragment of a letter of David Livingstone to John Murray.

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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.

Letter of David Livingstone to Mrs Robinson.

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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 Richard Thornton.

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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.

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Identifier: Acc.9913
Scope and Contents

Concerning Livingstone`s son Robert.

Dates: 1864.

Letter of David Livingstone to Sir Richard Owen.

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Identifier: Acc.10916
Scope and Contents

Concerns an elephant tusk and friendship.

Dates: 1857.

Letter of David Livingstone to Thomas Bazley and James Aspinall Turner, cotton merchants in Manchester.

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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

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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.

Papers of David Livingstone.

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Identifier: Acc.9529
Scope and Contents

Includes three fragments of letters, a letter of his daughter, Anna Mary, his commission as Consul and a copy of his book, "Analysis of the Language of the Bechuanas".

Dates: 1849-1892 and undated.

Photocopy of letter, 1856, of David Livingstone.

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Identifier: Acc.11642
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns a debt owed to the recipient`s (identified only as Welsh) brother. Includes a summary of interview, 1948, by Michael Kittermaster with Alumana, a headman in Zambia, on his meeting with Livingstone in 1873.

Dates: 1856 and 1948.

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Photocopies. 11
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Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 3
Murray, John (publisher (III)) (1808-1892) 3
Kirk, Sir John, Knight, naturalist and political agent, 1832-1922 2
Owen, Sir Richard, Knight, naturalist, 1804-1892 2
Wainwright, Jacob, follower of Livingstone, d 1892 2