Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873
Person
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
4 letters of David Livingstone, missionary, 2 of which are copies.
File
Identifier: Acc.13333
Dates:
1865, 1871, 1872.
15 letters of David Livingstone to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, with three enclosures to the editor of `The Times`, and various envelopes, copies and other items.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.237- is now Acc.7176.
Dates:
1857-1863.
Comparison of chronometers on David Livingstone`s Zembesi expedition.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8332
Dates:
1858-1863.
Copies of letters between John Kirk and David Livingstone., 1858-1871.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/55
Scope and Contents
Photographic copies of 11 letters, 7 September 1858 – 1 November 1871: nine from Kirk to Livingstone and 2 from Livingstone to Kirk. Relate to the Zambezi Expedition and Kirk's period at Zanzibar. With typescripts of the first two letters from Kirk.
Dates:
1858-1871.
Copies of letters of John Kirk to David Livingstone and others; and copies of letters from H.M. Stanley to Livingstone., 1870-1873.
File
Identifier: Acc.9942/56
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a letter from Kirk to Livingstone, 20 October 1870, and of three letters from H.M. Stanley to Livingstone, 20 March, 25 May, and 27 May 1872.
Photocopy of a letter from Kirk to W.D. Hooker, 18 February 1873. Concerns copal specimens.
Dates:
1870-1873.
Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.
File
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.
Fair copy, 1886, of the journal of James Greig of a hunting expedition in South Africa and Becknanaland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10027
Scope and Contents
Gives impressions of the scenery, games and meeting with missionaries, including David Livingstone.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Four field-diaries, numbered 21, 22, 24 and 26, 1867-1871, and notebooks, numbered 2 and 4, 1850-1854, of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: Dep.343
Dates:
1850-1854, 1867-1871.
Fragment of a letter of David Livingstone to John Murray.
Item
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.
Incomplete manuscript, "Livingstone`s Zambezi MS" : the manuscript of the "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries", by David and Charles Livingstone., 1864.
Item
Identifier: MS.42436
Dates:
1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
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Incomplete manuscript, "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries", by David Livingstone; with related proofs and a watercolour sketch.
Incomplete manuscript, "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries", by David Livingstone; with related proofs and a watercolour sketch., 1864-1865.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42436-42438
Dates:
1864-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
Letter of David Livingstone to Colonel Wildman (possibly Colonel Thomas Wildman of Newstead Abbey).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10160
Scope and Contents
Concerns a piece of china.
Dates:
1857.
Letter of David Livingstone to James Hamilton, millwright in Moffat.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9337
Dates:
1851.
Letter of David Livingstone to Mrs Robinson.
Item
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 Professor Richard Owen on the physical resemblences between ancient Egyptians and modern Africans.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12661
Dates:
1857.
Letter of David Livingstone to Richard Thornton.
Item
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.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9913
Scope and Contents
Concerning Livingstone`s son Robert.
Dates:
1864.
Letter of David Livingstone to Sir Richard Owen.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10916
Scope and Contents
Concerns an elephant tusk and friendship.
Dates:
1857.
Letter of David Livingstone to Sir Thomas Maclear, Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope; with the envelope, and a press cutting of a letter of Richard Burton.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14079
Dates:
27 May 1865.
Letter of David Livingstone to Thomas Bazley and James Aspinall Turner, cotton merchants in Manchester.
Item
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
Item
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.
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