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DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-1873)
Autograph letter signed ('David Livingstone') to an unidentified recipient (possibly Robert Cooke, John Murray's partner), Newstead Abbey, 19 April 1865, 3½ page, 8vo, on a bifolium.
THE COMPLETION OF THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. Livingstone has received the 'cuts [engravings] and queries', and returns them with further contributions for pages 201-233. 'The cut in pencil will do very well. I hope I have not injured it by putting inside the proofs'. He sends the contents list, 'but the chapters might be smaller than I have made them with advantage'; the manuscript was finished on the 16 April: 'Agnes wrote a big Finis'. A postscript refers humorously to some suggested corrections on 'transference of colour and the effects which ensue when old batchlors [sic] marry young wives'.
Livingstone wrote much of his Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries whilst staying at Newstead Abbey, the home of William Webb, a big-game enthusiast he had met in Bechuanaland -- 'among the happiest [days] of his life' (Jeal, p.281). The work itself considerably understated the difficulties and tensions of the Zambesi expedition, while vehemently attacking the Portuguese for its failures.
Autograph letter signed ('David Livingstone') to an unidentified recipient (possibly Robert Cooke, John Murray's partner), Newstead Abbey, 19 April 1865, 3½ page, 8vo, on a bifolium.
THE COMPLETION OF THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. Livingstone has received the 'cuts [engravings] and queries', and returns them with further contributions for pages 201-233. 'The cut in pencil will do very well. I hope I have not injured it by putting inside the proofs'. He sends the contents list, 'but the chapters might be smaller than I have made them with advantage'; the manuscript was finished on the 16 April: 'Agnes wrote a big Finis'. A postscript refers humorously to some suggested corrections on 'transference of colour and the effects which ensue when old batchlors [sic] marry young wives'.
Livingstone wrote much of his Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries whilst staying at Newstead Abbey, the home of William Webb, a big-game enthusiast he had met in Bechuanaland -- 'among the happiest [days] of his life' (Jeal, p.281). The work itself considerably understated the difficulties and tensions of the Zambesi expedition, while vehemently attacking the Portuguese for its failures.
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