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Dedications. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Authors' notes prefixed to works, offering them to friends or patrons as marks of esteem, affection, or gratitude, or as pleas for patronage.

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Marked proof of David Livingstone`s dedication of his "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" to Sir Roderick Murchison., 1857.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42431
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: 1857.