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				<title>Letter to H. Norton Shaw</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to H. Norton Shaw, 3 March 1857</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2008-10-17</date>
				<publisher>Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL</publisher>
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				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Shaw, H. Norton, ?-1868</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1857-03-03">3 March 1857</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">57 Sloane St., London</bibl>
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				<date>2008-07-01</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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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="3" unit="chars"/><placeName>57 Sloane St</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="right">3<hi rend="sup underline">d</hi> March 1857 </p>
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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Shaw</persName></p>
<lb/><p>On recollecting your 
<lb/>kind notice that I might 
<lb/>draw some money 
<lb/>from the testimonial 
<lb/>fund through you 
<lb/>and having nothing 
<lb/>else at present in 
<lb/>my power unless 
<lb/>I should begin to 
<lb/>draw afresh from 
<lb/>the L. Mission Society 

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<lb/>or from <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Murray</persName>
<lb/>the publisher, I shall 
<lb/>feel much obliged 
<lb/>if you can let me 
<lb/>have £50 of the money 
<lb/>in your hands without 
<lb/>making it much 
<lb/>known. If it should 
<lb/>be necessary to discuss 
<lb/>the thing before 
<lb/>committees you 
<lb/>need not take the 
<lb/>trouble, but return 
<lb/>the receipt by <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">rs</hi> L.</persName></p>

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<lb/><p>I might apply to the 
<lb/>London Missionary 
<lb/>society but it would 
<lb/>be beginning the 
<lb/>£100 for 1857 which 
<lb/>I have no intention 
<lb/>of doing. I have 
<lb/>nothing now there 
<lb/>as they gave part of 
<lb/>my salary to <persName>M<hi rend="sup">rs</hi> L.</persName>
<lb/>when I was absent 
<lb/>and the sum (£100) 
<lb/>I had over of my 
<lb/>four years trip is 
<lb/>now among the things 
<lb/><space extent="2" unit="words"/><space extent="3" unit="chars"/>that were 

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<lb/>this £50 if it can be 
<lb/>got without trouble 
<lb/>and talk, will enable 
<lb/>us to go on till we 
<lb/>get more into our 
<lb/>hands either from 
<lb/>the book or testimonial<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">I am busy at work 
<lb/>never out scarcely, 
<lb/>am going to the Arch bishop<reg>'</reg>s 
<lb/>tonight and as I am 
<lb/>not sure about the 
<lb/>"<hi rend="underline">stone</hi>" &amp; "ston" I imitate 
<lb/>him &amp; sign myself </p>
<lb/><p>David Zambezi </p>
			
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