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STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON, Explorer, journalist. Autograph letter signed ("Henry M. Stanley") TO SAMUEL BAKER, 30 Sackville Street, London, 25 January 1878. 3 pages, 8vo.
EXPLORER TO EXPLORER
Written at the height of Stanley's fame as an explorer. He had just returned from a three-year expedition into central Africa, in which he traced the southern sources of the Nile, discovered Lake Edward, circumnavigated Lake Victoria, surveyed Lake Tanganyika and descended the Congo to its mouth. These epic travels were recounted by Stanley in his enormously popular book Through the Dark Continent, published the same year as this letter. "I feel greater pride that my work meets such flattering approbation from practical travellers like yourself than I should from ever so many encomiums lavished on me from people who had never been in the wilds of Africa & could not properly appreciate the extraordinary circumstances which surround the explorer. It is unnecessary I hope for me to state how delighted I shall be to make the acquaintance of a man who had made a name for himself when I was a boy. Please present my compliments to Lady Baker...."
The recipient, Sir Samuel Baker (l821-l893) had explored the Nile tributaries in l860-61, discovered Lake Albert, suppressed the slave trade at the request of the Pasha of Egypt and published several widely-read accounts of his experiences.
EXPLORER TO EXPLORER
Written at the height of Stanley's fame as an explorer. He had just returned from a three-year expedition into central Africa, in which he traced the southern sources of the Nile, discovered Lake Edward, circumnavigated Lake Victoria, surveyed Lake Tanganyika and descended the Congo to its mouth. These epic travels were recounted by Stanley in his enormously popular book Through the Dark Continent, published the same year as this letter. "I feel greater pride that my work meets such flattering approbation from practical travellers like yourself than I should from ever so many encomiums lavished on me from people who had never been in the wilds of Africa & could not properly appreciate the extraordinary circumstances which surround the explorer. It is unnecessary I hope for me to state how delighted I shall be to make the acquaintance of a man who had made a name for himself when I was a boy. Please present my compliments to Lady Baker...."
The recipient, Sir Samuel Baker (l821-l893) had explored the Nile tributaries in l860-61, discovered Lake Albert, suppressed the slave trade at the request of the Pasha of Egypt and published several widely-read accounts of his experiences.