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The sketch has been annotated by David Livingstone.

The illustration was included in the "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries" under the caption, "The grave of Mrs. Livingstone under the Baobab-tree, near to Shupanga House".

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...

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...

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...

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The letters concern mostly the preparation for publication of Livingstone`s `Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa`.

Scope and Contents Most of the letters concern the preparation for publication of Livingstone`s “Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries”. Also included : (1) a letter of Reginald Poole to ?John Murray III concerning a quotation in Livingstone`s “Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries”;(2) letters of Robert Cooke to John Murray III concerning the return of Henry Stanley to Europe after he had "found" Livingstone at...

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The title on the spine of the volume is "The Bechuana language".

Folio i is a note (watermark 1857) by Livingstone concerning the title page for the publication of the manuscript : "Under the title say. Written at Kuruman in November 1852 and printed for private use among all the members of the Livingstone expedition".

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Livingstone first visited Lake Nyasa on 17 September 1859, claiming its discovery. It is likely, however, that this folio, with its sketch of a fish described by Livingstone as a "sanjika", dates from his last journeys when he skirted the southern edge of the lake on his way to Lake Tanganyika.

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...

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...

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Folios 1-6 : incomplete post-script to the preface ; and,

folio 7 : footnote to page 600.