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				<title>Letter to Henry Allon</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to Henry Allon, 6 February 1858</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2005-04-28</date>
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				<bibl xml:id="ccnumber">Letters, 0688</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Allon, Henry, 1818-1892</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1858-02-06">6 February 1858</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">18 Hart St., London</bibl>
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				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription
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				<date>2006-02-12</date>
				<name xml:id="CL">Chris Lawrence</name>first proof
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				<date>2006-02-19</date>
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<lb/><p rend="right"><placeName>18 Hart <choice><abbr>St.</abbr><expan>Street</expan></choice></placeName></p>
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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>Sir</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>the only day 
<lb/>I have next week 
<lb/>is Tuesday, and 
<lb/>that in consequence 
<lb/>of the authorities 
<lb/>having refused 
<lb/><persName>my brother in law</persName>

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<lb/>permission to go 
<lb/>to Africa. He 
<lb/>was about to 
<lb/>marry on that 
<lb/>day and a change 
<lb/>of wind having 
<lb/>taken place at 
<lb/>the mission house 
<lb/>he is requested 
<lb/>to study medicine 
<lb/>for two months! 
<lb/>I was sorry that 
<lb/>I could not fulfil 

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<lb/>my intention of 
<lb/>visiting you before 
<lb/>but now the 
<lb/>time is past, as 
<lb/>next week is our 
<lb/>last. Next Monday 
<lb/>week we go to 
<lb/>see our children 
<lb/>and do not return 
<lb/>to London again 
<lb/>as we sail a 
<lb/>few days after</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">Thanks for your 
<lb/>kind thought<del type="strikethrough">s</del> about 
<lb/>me. I regret 

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<lb/>that pressing duties 
<lb/>have prevented my 
<lb/>seeing you more</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">I have not seen 
<lb/><persName>Rookes'</persName> letters 
<lb/>unless his were 
<lb/>among a host 
<lb/>which have 
<lb/>been sent to me 
<lb/>&amp; which I could 
<lb/>not even look 
<lb/>at</p>
<lb/><p rend="center">Yours very truly</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">David Livingstone</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><persName><choice><abbr>Rev<hi rend="sup">d</hi></abbr><expan>Reverend</expan></choice> H. Allon</persName></p>
			
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