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				<title>Letter to H. Norton Shaw</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to H. Norton Shaw, [2 February 1857]</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2009</date>
				<publisher>Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL</publisher>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); Archives, DL 2/15/1</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="ccnumber">Letters, 0464</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Shaw, H. Norton, ?-1868</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1857-02-02">[2 February 1857]</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">57 Sloane St., London</bibl>
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				<date>2009-01-13</date>
				<name xml:id="CO">Caroline Overy</name>Initial Transcription by Caroline Overy
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				<date>2009-01-24</date>
				<name xml:id="CL">Christopher Lawrence</name>Proof by Chris Lawrence
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<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><placeName>57 Sloane St</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/>Monday Morning</p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Shaw</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>I enclose the 
<lb/>paper with a perfect 
<lb/>host of corrections 
<lb/>I never read the 
<lb/>reports in the public 
<lb/>papers but hope 
<lb/>they were more 
<lb/>correct than "our 
<lb/>own reporters"<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>In some points he 
<lb/>has not caught the 
<lb/>idea which whether 
<lb/>it ever came out 
<lb/>or not was in 
<lb/>my own mind, 
<lb/>probably a share 
<lb/>and a very large 
<lb/>share of the blame 
<lb/>is after all my 
<lb/>own. <persName>Sir Roderick</persName>
<lb/>mentioned my 
<lb/>obligations to <persName>General 

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<lb/>Hay</persName>. I forget the 
<lb/>precise words. 
<lb/><choice><reg>W</reg><orig>W</orig></choice>ould you mind 
<lb/>adding something 
<lb/>like the last sentence 
<lb/>I mean if it is 
<lb/>right to do so<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">You see in the Times 
<lb/>this morning the 
<lb/>mistake is put on 
<lb/>my shoulders and 
<lb/>my friend <persName>Prout</persName>
<lb/>is no doubt ready 

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<lb/>to swear that <hi rend="underline">corrected 
<lb/>by myself</hi> is true. 
<lb/>I having merely glanced 
<lb/>at the newspaper 
<lb/>thing &amp; pointed out 
<lb/>that it was all wrong 
<lb/>about the <placeName>Zambesi</placeName><reg>.</reg>
<lb/>After this "Save 
<lb/>me from some 
<lb/>of my friends"<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="center">D. Livingston</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">I believe I have drawn 
<lb/>my pen through the words 
<lb/>to be left out.</p>
			
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