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    <mods:title>Letter to Thomas Maclear</mods:title>
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    <mods:title>Letter to Thomas Maclear, 15 February, 2 March 1856</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Livingstone, Agnes 3, 1847-1912</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Maclear, Thomas, 1794-1879</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:description>Appointed astronomer of the Royal Observatory at Cape Town in 1833. Knighted 1860. Met Livingstone in 1852, became a close friend, and thereafter Livingstone depended on him to check and reduce his observations. Livingstone named Cape Maclear after him.</mods:description>
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    <mods:dateCreated>15 February, 2 March 1856</mods:dateCreated>
    <mods:dateCreated encoding='iso8601'>1856-02-15/1856-03-02</mods:dateCreated>
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      <mods:placeTerm type='text'>Near Tete or Nyunkwe-Tete</mods:placeTerm>
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      <mods:placeTerm type='text'>Tete (Mozambique : Province)</mods:placeTerm>
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    <mods:extent unit='pages'>12</mods:extent>
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    <mods:extent unit='mm'>400 x 252</mods:extent>
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    <mods:identifier>Parliamentary Papers (Great Britain), Sess. 2 1857, XLIV [212] A, 32-35.</mods:identifier>
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