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				<title>Letter to [Edgar L.] Layard</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to [Edgar L.] Layard, 7 April 1860</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2007-07-12</date>
				<publisher>Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL</publisher>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">National Library of Scotland; MS. 10768, ff. 43-44</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="ccnumber">Letters, 1014</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Layard, Edgar L., 1824-1900</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1860-04-07">7 April 1860</date></bibl>
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				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Intial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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				<date>2007-08-07</date>
				<name xml:id="CL">Chris Lawrence</name>Proofed by Chris
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<lb/><p rend="right"><space extent="2" unit="chars"/><placeName>Senna</placeName> 7<hi rend="sup underline">th</hi> April </p>
<lb/><p rend="right"><space extent="2" unit="words"/><space extent="1" unit="chars"/>1860 </p>
<lb/><p><hi rend="underline">Private</hi></p>
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<lb/><p>My Dear <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Layard</persName>
<lb/><space extent="3" unit="words"/><space extent="3" unit="chars"/>In reply to your 
<lb/>enquiry about snails I have to 
<lb/>confess that there is a singular 
<lb/>and blessed scarcity of them here. 
<lb/>I can recollect having seen only 
<lb/>nine species - of these one is 
<lb/>a black velveteen coated individual 
<lb/>without shell, and another very 
<lb/>like that yellow civilized snail 
<lb/>which we used to see when 
<lb/>"daisies &amp; buttercups gladdened 
<lb/>our sight"<reg>.</reg> He is houseless too. 
<lb/>Whether this scarcity arises from 
<lb/>the tremendous grass burnings </p>

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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">that annually sweep over the land, 
<lb/>or from <add place="above">the</add> want <add place="above">of</add> enterprise (in the 
<lb/>animals) which has consigned this 
<lb/>fine country to paltry peddling 
<lb/>in ivory &amp; sneaking dealing in 
<lb/>in human flesh, I cannot pretend 
<lb/>to say, but if you are fond of 
<lb/>throwing snails into your dissenting 
<lb/>neighbour's garden, you need not 
<lb/>come here. It would be all up with 
<lb/>you. <choice><reg>B</reg><orig>b</orig></choice>ut I shall try &amp; send you 
<lb/>a few some day.</p>
<lb/><p><persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Kirk</persName> got away a good 
<lb/>botanical collection and <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> C Livingstone</persName>
<lb/>a good many birds. <choice><reg>B</reg><orig>b</orig></choice>ut it has 
<lb/>been uphill work - want of room 
<lb/>and perpetual damp in our wretched 
<lb/>asthmatic steamer seriously 
<w>im-<lb break="no"/>peded</w> every effort. But if we live, 
<lb/>we shall do something more, i.e. we 
<lb/>shall try &amp; try again<reg>.</reg></p>

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<lb/><p>Thanks for the <unclear cert="low">Pinches</unclear> - the good 
<lb/>old fellow swam ashore seven 
<lb/>miles west of where he 
<lb/>was sent afloat! <choice><reg>L</reg><orig>l</orig></choice>etters lost. 
<lb/><space extent="2" unit="words"/><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>I am &amp;c 
<lb/><space extent="2" unit="words"/><space extent="1" unit="chars"/><persName>D. Livingstone</persName></p>
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<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">We leave our craft at <placeName>Tette</placeName>
<lb/>if she floats so long she is 
<lb/>completely done. A better 
<lb/>vessel is necessary before 
<lb/>any collection can be made<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>Thanks for the zoological information </p>
			
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