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				<title>Letter to Henry Toynbee</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to Henry Toynbee, [22-27 August 1857]</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2005-04-29</date>
				<publisher>Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL</publisher>
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				<bibl xml:id="ccnumber">Letters, 0573</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Toynbee, Henry</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date from="1857-08-22" to="1857-08-27">[22-27 August 1857]</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">[Hadley Green?]</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Library; 7329 70</bibl><!--1857-08-01--><!--Original:circa Aug 1857-->
				<bibl xml:id="extent">4 pages</bibl>
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				<date>2005-04-29</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription
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				<date>2006-02-14</date>
				<name xml:id="JB">Janet Browne</name>first proof
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				<date>2006-02-21</date>
				<name xml:id="CL">Chris Lawrence</name>second proof
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				<date>2005-02-27</date>
				<name xml:id="CO">Caroline Overy</name>final proof
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<lb/><cb/><ab rend="no-indent">My book is delayed till November
<lb/>on account of these said hideous affairs</ab>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear Captain</p>
<lb/><p>Murray is 
<lb/>willing to print 
<lb/>250 copies but 
<lb/>thinks that as 
<lb/>the majority of 
<lb/>readers care 
<lb/>little for these 
<lb/>details, it had</p> 

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<lb/><cb/><ab rend="no-indent">Will you ask the Admiral's opinion
<lb/>and tell me where they will be published
<lb/>if not in the way Murray proposes</ab> 
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">better not be 
<lb/>put into the 
<lb/>book, but 
<lb/>given to whoever 
<lb/>may apply 
<lb/>for it. In 
<lb/>these circumstances 
<lb/>what is to be 
<lb/>done. Shall 
<lb/>we give them 
<lb/>over to the 
<lb/>Royal Geographical</p>

	<pb n="0003" facs="liv_001080_0003"/><!--pb/@n='3'--> 
<lb/><cb/><ab rend="no-indent">so that I may refer to them in
<lb/>my preface <space extent="2" unit="chars"/>I am &amp; David Livingstone</ab>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">or Astronomical 
<lb/>Society. I should  
<lb/>like the Admiral's 
<lb/>opinion: 12 000 
<lb/>is a serious 
<lb/>expense though 
<lb/>it would only 
<lb/>be two sheets 
<lb/>At any rate 
<lb/>you are in 
<lb/>for the Editorship 
<lb/>&amp; I am thankful 
<lb/>that you are</p>

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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">When will you 
<lb/>be back? I 
<lb/>go to Dublin on 
<lb/>Thursday morning</p>
<lb/><p>I here leave 
<lb/>all I have of  
<lb/><unclear cert="medium">Maclear</unclear> in 
<lb/>a duplicate which 
<lb/>I intend to deposit 
<lb/>after you have 
<lb/>done with it where 
<lb/>I found it. I leave 
<lb/>also a <add place="above">rough</add> proof of 
<lb/>Arrowsmith.</p>
			
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