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David Livingstone (1813-1873)
Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent ('My dear Sir'), 57 Sloane Street, London, 17 February 1857, 4 pages, 8vo (slight soiling on last page).
Livingstone writes in unusually friendly mode, 'I remember you very well', enquires about mutual friends, declares he has 'no time to spare in England - Am at close work over a book and when that is over will leave for East Africa', and is writing in a brief moment of relaxation, adding 'I wish I were away again'.
Livingstone writes during his much-fted interval in England between the discovery of the Victoria Falls and the Zambesi expedition. The book he refers to is his Missionary Travels (1857); ironically, he ended his connection with the Missionary Society the same year.
[Together with:] Autograph letters by:
Sir Samuel Baker (1821-1893, discoverer of Lake Albert), 2 letters, 1875 & 1890, the latter referring to 'Stanley's reception at the Albert Hall', 5 pages, 8vo and 4to;
Sir John Barrow (1764-1848, promoter of Arctic exploration), to the geographer James MacQueen, Admiralty, 6 April 1821, discussing MacQueen's work on central north Africa and the course of the Niger, and the occupation of Fernando Po as a means of access to 'the most valuable portions of the Continent', 2 pages, 8vo;
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894, leader of expedition to aid Livingstone in 1873), 2 letters
James Augustus Grant (1827-1892, accompanied Speke in 1861-3)
and others including Dorothy Stanley and Livingstone's son Oswell, 10 in total, in an album.
Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent ('My dear Sir'), 57 Sloane Street, London, 17 February 1857, 4 pages, 8vo (slight soiling on last page).
Livingstone writes in unusually friendly mode, 'I remember you very well', enquires about mutual friends, declares he has 'no time to spare in England - Am at close work over a book and when that is over will leave for East Africa', and is writing in a brief moment of relaxation, adding 'I wish I were away again'.
Livingstone writes during his much-fted interval in England between the discovery of the Victoria Falls and the Zambesi expedition. The book he refers to is his Missionary Travels (1857); ironically, he ended his connection with the Missionary Society the same year.
[Together with:] Autograph letters by:
Sir Samuel Baker (1821-1893, discoverer of Lake Albert), 2 letters, 1875 & 1890, the latter referring to 'Stanley's reception at the Albert Hall', 5 pages, 8vo and 4to;
Sir John Barrow (1764-1848, promoter of Arctic exploration), to the geographer James MacQueen, Admiralty, 6 April 1821, discussing MacQueen's work on central north Africa and the course of the Niger, and the occupation of Fernando Po as a means of access to 'the most valuable portions of the Continent', 2 pages, 8vo;
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894, leader of expedition to aid Livingstone in 1873), 2 letters
James Augustus Grant (1827-1892, accompanied Speke in 1861-3)
and others including Dorothy Stanley and Livingstone's son Oswell, 10 in total, in an album.