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    <mods:title>Letter to George Back</mods:title>
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    <mods:title>Letter to George Back, 13 December 1856</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Back, George, 1796-1878</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:description>Naval officer, explorer, naturalist, and artist. Voyaged with Franklin into Arctic waters in 1819. Commanded an expedition to the north to find Captain John Ross in 1833. Promoted to rank of Admiral in 1857.</mods:description>
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    <mods:dateCreated>13 December 1856</mods:dateCreated>
    <mods:dateCreated encoding='iso8601'>1856-12-13</mods:dateCreated>
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      <mods:placeTerm type='text'>London (England)</mods:placeTerm>
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    <mods:note type='physical details'>Complete manuscript in creator's hand</mods:note>
    <mods:extent unit='pages'>2</mods:extent>
    <mods:note>1 folio, folded to create 4 pages, with writing on 2 pages</mods:note>
    <mods:extent unit='mm'>185 x 115</mods:extent>
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      <mods:namePart>Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:accessCondition type='use and reproduction'>Images &amp;#169; Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Used by permission for academic purposes only. For non-academic use permission, please contact the Picture Library.</mods:accessCondition>
    <mods:accessCondition type='use and reproduction'>As relevant, &amp;#169; Dr. Neil Imray Livingstone Wilson. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).</mods:accessCondition>
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