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				<title>Letter to John Murray III</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Murray III, 31 May 1857</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2008-04-02</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. 45r-48v</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="ccnumber">Letters, 0533</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Murray, John III, 1808-1892</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1857-05-31">31 May 1857</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">[Hadley Green]</bibl>
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				<date>2008-04-02</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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				<date>2008-11-26</date>
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<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><placeName>Hadley Green</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/>31<hi rend="sup underline">st</hi> May 1857</p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Murray</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="1" unit="words"/>I was extremely 
<lb/>surprised and pained 
<lb/>by the utterly unwarrantable 
<lb/>liberties taken by the 
<lb/>person you employed 
<lb/>on my copy. I cannot 
<lb/>believe that you are 
<lb/>aware of them as you 
<lb/>heard what <persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Elwin</persName>
<lb/>said about the pleasure 
<lb/>he experienced in 
<lb/>reading what I had 
<lb/>written in my own 

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<lb/>style. I have the 
<lb/>opinions of <persName>Prof. Owen</persName>
<lb/><persName>Sir Roderick Murchison</persName>
<lb/><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Elvin</persName> &amp; <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Binney</persName>
<lb/>that it is more likely 
<lb/>to be popular and 
<lb/>saleable than if diluted 
<lb/>or emasculated as 
<lb/>this man has impudently 
<lb/>presumed to do. It 
<lb/>is therefore both for 
<lb/>your advantage &amp; 
<lb/>mine that I reject 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">in toto</hi> every change 
<lb/>introduced in red ink<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>I am sorry you have 
<lb/>been at the expense of 
<lb/>employing this man 
<lb/>I will refund all 
<lb/>you have expended 
<lb/>on him if you please 
<lb/>but my dear friend 
<lb/>every iota of his 
<lb/>labour must go. I 
<lb/>cannot and will 
<lb/>not submit any one 
<lb/>comma even to his 
<lb/>judgment. The parts 
<lb/>in which I have 
<lb/>incorporated the 
<lb/>corrections of 

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<lb/><persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Binney</persName> can and 
<lb/>must stand as I have 
<lb/>put them. I have 
<lb/>come to the conclusion 
<lb/>since reading <persName>Kane's</persName> 
<lb/>book today - set your 
<lb/>man to that and I 
<lb/>affirm he would 
<lb/>erase &amp; transpose 
<lb/>more than in mine 
<lb/>and yet that is popular<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>I think I may declare 
<lb/>to you that you 
<lb/>will not find me 
<lb/>cantankerous or 

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<lb/>unreasonable or 
<lb/>difficult to deal 
<lb/>with in any other 
<lb/>matter but I must 
<lb/>positively resist 
<lb/>any attempts to tamper 
<lb/>with or emasculate 
<lb/>the book I am 
<lb/>sure you have not 
<lb/>looked at this 
<lb/>impudent fellow<reg>'</reg>s 
<lb/>work seriously<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>It is quite abominable 
<lb/>and no earthly 
<w>con-<lb break="no"/>sideration</w> will 

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<lb/>make me succumb 
<lb/>to make the work 
<lb/>a mere primer<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>I fear, by the explanation 
<lb/>I have given wherever 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">obscure</hi> was marked 
<lb/>it will even now 
<lb/>partake of too much 
<lb/>of the penny primer 
<lb/>character. Many 
<lb/>of the corrections 
<lb/>already put in are 
<lb/>not given in <persName>Kane<reg>'</reg>s</persName>
<lb/>and my book will 

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<lb/>be read by persons 
<lb/>in much the same 
<lb/>position as to 
<w>intell-<lb break="no"/>igence</w> as the readers 
<lb/>of his. </p>
<lb/><p>I send this before 
<lb/>me but come up 
<lb/>on Monday <add place="above">myself</add> - I can 
<lb/>get a man who 
<lb/>has some sympathy 
<lb/>with African travel 
<lb/><persName>Galton</persName> for instance 
<lb/>or <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Archer</persName>. All 
<lb/>the emendations 
<lb/>I introduced in black 
<lb/>ink must be retained<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>All those in red are nil 
<lb/>I would not for anything 
<lb/>else give you one 
<lb/>moment<reg>'</reg>s pain but 
<lb/>this is a case in which 
<lb/>your interests will 
<lb/>suffer as well as 
<lb/>mine if allowed 
<lb/>to go on. I can not 
<lb/>&amp; will not submit 
<lb/>to this unknown<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>I would do anything 
<lb/>else for you but 
<lb/>this you can<reg>'</reg>t be 
<lb/>aware of<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p><persName>David Livingstone</persName></p>
			
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