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				<title>Letter to John Washington</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Washington, 12 February 1858</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>09-08-2009</date>
				<publisher>Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL</publisher>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">National Museum of the Royal Navy (Great Britain); MSS. 120</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="ccnumber">Letters, 0709</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Washington, John, 1800-1863</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1858-02-12">12 February 1858</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">18 Hart St., London</bibl>
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				<date>2009</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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				<date>2009-08-24</date>
				<name xml:id="CL">Chris Lawrence</name>Proofed by Chris
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<lb/><p><hi rend="underline">Private</hi></p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="chars"/><placeName>18 Hart St.</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="2" unit="chars"/><placeName>Bloomsbury</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>12 Feby 1858 </p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">Dear <persName>Cap<hi rend="sup underline">n</hi> Washington </persName></p>
<lb/><p>I beg leave to 
<lb/>forward to you 
<lb/><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Baines'</persName> formal 
<lb/>application for 
<lb/>a sum to be 
<lb/>paid statedly to 
<lb/>his mother, and 
<lb/>feel sure that 

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<lb/>you will do kindly 
<lb/>do what you 
<lb/>can to forward 
<lb/>his laudable 
<lb/>desire. </p>
<lb/><p>The complaint 
<lb/>of <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Welsh</persName> about 
<lb/>the chronometer 
<lb/>having run down 
<lb/>was frivolous. 
<lb/>I wrote a sharp 
<lb/>letter to <persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Charles 
<lb/>Livingstone </persName> on 

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<lb/><choice><sic>recieving</sic><corr>receiving</corr></choice> the report 
<lb/>and on further 
<lb/>investigation felt 
<lb/>ashamed that I had 
<lb/>done it. The watch 
<lb/>did not run 
<lb/>down but stopped 
<lb/>and evoked the ejaculation 
<lb/>"Hallo! have I 
<lb/>forgot to wind 
<lb/>it up" on trial 
<lb/>with the key 

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<lb/>it was found 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">wound</hi> up. <persName>Capt<hi rend="sup">n</hi>
<lb/>Haig</persName> asked if it 
<lb/>had been neglected 
<lb/>and <choice><sic>recieved</sic><corr>received</corr></choice> the 
<lb/>reply No. <persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi>
<lb/>Welsh</persName> overhearing 
<lb/>this <hi rend="underline">infers</hi> &amp; the 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">inference</hi> is gravely 
<lb/>reported to you 
<lb/>as a fact. I was 
<lb/>very much 

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<lb/>annoyed by the 
<lb/>idea that my 
<lb/>brother was 
<lb/>careless in the 
<lb/>performance of 
<lb/>his duty. He 
<lb/>walked all the 
<lb/>way from 
<lb/><placeName>Highbury</placeName> to this 
<lb/>about midnight 
<lb/>and back again 
<lb/>after <choice><sic>recieving</sic><corr>receiving</corr></choice>

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<lb/>my note and 
<lb/>after spending 
<lb/>a sleepless night 
<lb/>(I was out till 
<lb/>(12 1/2) was here 
<lb/>again early this 
<lb/>morning to 
<lb/>explain. </p>
<lb/><p><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>I should 
<lb/>like to know 
<lb/>if our magnetical 

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<lb/>observations 
<lb/>will come through 
<lb/><persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Welsh's</persName>
<lb/>hands - He stated 
<lb/>that <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> C. Livingstone</persName>
<lb/>was ignorant 
<lb/>of logarithms. 
<lb/>Now <persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Welsh</persName>
<lb/>never said a 
<lb/>word to him 
<lb/>about them 
<lb/>and he <add place="above"><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> L.</persName></add> is moreover 

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<lb/>(though perhaps a 
<lb/>little rusty from 
<lb/>disuse) thoroughly 
<lb/>educated being 
<lb/>B.A. of his 
<lb/>college. If there 
<lb/>is not a sacred 
<lb/>regard to truth in 
<lb/>those to whom our 
<lb/>observations <add place="above">may</add> come 
<lb/>the zeal of the Expedition 
<lb/>for magnetism will 
<lb/>undoubtedly sink to 
<lb/>zero perhaps below it<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>I write you because 
<lb/>as I am to be 
<lb/>introduced to her 
<lb/><persName>Majesty</persName> tomorrow 
<lb/>besides the dinner 
<lb/>in the evening 
<lb/>I fear I may 
<lb/>not have the 
<lb/>pleasure of 
<lb/>waiting on you 
<lb/>till Monday<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>Will you kindly 
<lb/>aid me about 
<lb/>the chronometer? 
<lb/>I have thought 
<lb/>a box one 
<lb/>will be preferable<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>A note from 
<lb/>you to the 
<lb/>Astronomer 
<lb/>Royal and 
<lb/>if necessary 

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<lb/>an order for 
<lb/>one of the tried 
<lb/>ones to be 
<lb/>paid for (£30 
<lb/>or a bit more) 
<lb/>by me. The 
<lb/>lady came this 
<lb/>morning and 
<lb/>wished me 
<lb/>to go &amp; buy it 
<lb/>at once <reg>.</reg></p>

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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">I send all my 
<lb/>packages to 
<lb/><placeName>Liverpool</placeName> tomorrow 
<lb/>(Saturday) and 
<lb/>will visit my 
<lb/>children for the 
<lb/>last time on <choice><reg>Tuesday</reg><orig>t</orig></choice><reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p>I am &amp;c </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><persName>David Livingstone</persName></p>
			
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