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				<title>Letter to John Murray III</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Murray III, 30 May [1857]</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2008-11-14</date>
				<publisher>Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL</publisher>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">National Library of Scotland; MS. 42420, ff. 37r-40v</bibl>
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				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Murray, John III, 1808-1892</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1857-05-30">30 May [1857]</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">Hadley Green, Barnet</bibl>
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<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>30<hi rend="sup underline">th</hi> May</p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><placeName>Hadley Green</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><space extent="2" unit="chars"/><placeName>Barnet</placeName></p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Murray</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>I return the 
<lb/>drawings with 
<lb/>remarks. I entirely 
<lb/>forgot all about 
<lb/><persName>Lady EastLake's</persName>
<lb/>invitation. <choice><reg>T</reg><orig>t</orig></choice>he 
<lb/>flitting must have 
<lb/>driven it out of 
<lb/>my head for <choice><sic>untill</sic><corr>until</corr></choice>

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<lb/>your note came this 
<lb/>morning I never 
<lb/>dreamed about it 
<lb/>I shall write and 
<lb/>apologize. I shall 
<lb/>let the printer have 
<lb/>three pieces on 
<lb/>Monday if he sends 
<lb/>to <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Wilbraham 
<lb/>Taylor</persName><placeName>1 Robert St.</placeName>
<lb/><placeName>Adelphi</placeName><placeName>Strand</placeName>
<lb/>for it between 
<lb/>11 &amp; 12 o clock. He 
<lb/>is a neighbour &amp; 
<lb/>will bring any little 
<lb/><space extent="2" unit="words"/><space extent="4" unit="chars"/>thing<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>Please send the 
<lb/>following corrections 
<lb/>to be incorporated 
<lb/>with the others<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"> P. 108 line 9 from 
<lb/>the bottom after 
<lb/>was seen, add, But 
<lb/>it may be a sort of 
<lb/>Ant-Lion <hi rend="underline">(Myrmuoléo)</hi>
<lb/>as they often walk 
<lb/>backwards. </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">P. 113 Second line 
<lb/>from bottom 

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<lb/>retain the words 
<lb/>splash, guggle 
<lb/>jupp, as <persName>Prof. 
<lb/>Owen</persName> thinks them 
<lb/>very expressive 
<lb/>of the thing intended 
<lb/>P. 111 Retain what 
<lb/>follows 10th line 
<lb/>from top as 
<lb/>corrected in the slips sent. </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">117 21 <hi rend="sup">st</hi> line from top 
<lb/>after "disaffection" put 
<lb/>and successful rebellion 
<lb/><space extent="3" unit="words"/>Dele success 

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<lb/>down for us. 
<lb/>The books will 
<lb/>I suppose come 
<lb/>safe. I think 
<lb/>I can promise 
<lb/>you three or 
<lb/>four pieces of 
<lb/>new matter weekly 
<lb/>we are quite quiet 
<lb/>here. Would 
<lb/>you send <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi>
<lb/>Gabriel's
</persName> letters 
<lb/>as I am now in 

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<lb/><placeName>Angola.</placeName><choice><reg>T</reg><orig>t</orig></choice>hey may 
<lb/>be suggestive 
<lb/>I shall come up 
<lb/>on Thursday next 
<lb/>to <choice><sic>fulfill</sic><corr>fulfil</corr></choice> an 
<lb/>engagement with 
<lb/>Baptist Noel 
<lb/>&amp; that is the last. 
<lb/>The <placeName>Manchester</placeName>
<lb/>friends tell me 
<lb/>of £500 without a 
<lb/>whit of that bother which 
<lb/><placeName>Alderman Wire</placeName> coined for 
<lb/>me in <placeName>London.</placeName> It is there<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>Could you lend 
<lb/>me Maunder's 
<lb/>treasury of Natural 
<lb/>History. I have it 
<lb/>in <placeName>Africa</placeName> and 
<lb/>don<reg>'</reg>t wish to buy 
<lb/>another<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p>With kind regards 
<lb/>to <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">rs</hi>Murray</persName> &amp; 
<lb/>hoping she will 
<lb/>say a word in 
<lb/>excuse for me 
<lb/>the first time 
<lb/>thereby doubly valuable </p>

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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">She meets <persName>Lady 
<lb/>Eastlake</persName><reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p>I am &amp;c</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><persName>David Livingstone</persName></p>
			
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