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				<title>Letter to John Washington</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Washington, 1 November 1862</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2009-08-18</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, 1285</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Washington, John, 1800-1863</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1862-11-01">1 November 1862</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">Johanna</bibl>
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				<handNote xml:id="hand01">Scribe: Unknown</handNote>
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				<date>2009-08-26</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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				<date>2009-10-24</date>
				<name xml:id="CL">Chris Lawrence</name>First Proof by Chris Lawrence
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<lb/><p rend="center"><placeName>Johanna</placeName> 1 Nov<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="2" unit="words"/><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>1862 </p>
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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">Dear Admiral </p>
<lb/><p><space extent="1" unit="words"/><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>We have remained 
<lb/>a few days longer here 
<lb/>than was needful on 
<lb/>account of the weather 
<lb/>being unsettled and a 
<lb/>blow was expected. 
<lb/>We take six trained 
<lb/>oxen from <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Sunley</persName>
<lb/>who very kindly 
<lb/>parts with them at 
<lb/>a low price though 
<lb/>it would be his interest 
<lb/>to keep them to get 
<lb/>in his sugar crop. 
<lb/>&amp; intend to sail 2 days hence<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>We lost a crew of 
<lb/><placeName>Johanna</placeName> men they 
<lb/>ran away they said 
<lb/>because <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Young</persName>
<lb/>thrashed them in 
<lb/>my absence up 
<lb/><placeName>Rovuma</placeName>. I engaged 
<lb/>eleven more who 
<lb/>seem a more likely 
<lb/>lot than the others<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p>I have to beg 
<lb/>your attention to an 
<lb/>affair of <persName>King</persName> our 
<lb/>leading stoker. His 
<lb/>wife is reported to 
<lb/>him to be living 
<lb/>with another man<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>He wished to cut 

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<lb/>off his allowance to 
<lb/>her at once but I 
<lb/>advised him to be 
<lb/>cautious as it might 
<lb/>turn out to be a false 
<lb/>report. He has asked 
<lb/><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">rs</hi> Young</persName> to see if 
<lb/>she (<persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">rs</hi> King</persName>) is living 
<lb/>openly with another 
<lb/>man and if so to 
<lb/>report to you so 
<lb/>that the pay she 
<lb/>draws may be 
<lb/>stopped. Any expense 
<lb/>for his child he 
<lb/>will freely give<reg>.</reg> 
<lb/>I hope it may turn 

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<lb/>out not so bad as 
<lb/>he has been led to 
<lb/>believe<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><persName>Meller</persName> is with us 
<lb/>again - but his spleen 
<lb/>is not reduced as 
<lb/>we hoped - he 
<lb/>is a capital fellow<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p>Will you send 
<lb/>the invoice or bill 
<lb/>of lading of anything 
<lb/>for us to <persName>Frederick 
<lb/>J. Rutherfoord Esq-</persName>
<lb/><placeName>Cape Town</placeName>. He 
<lb/>will look after it 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">con amore</hi>. All the 
<lb/>beer is drunk by 
<lb/>some scamps at <placeName>Cape</placeName><reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>I am deeply grieved 
<lb/>to hear of the death 
<lb/>of your friend <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> MacWilliam</persName><reg>.</reg> Our 
<lb/>condensing apparatus 
<lb/>has decidedly improved 
<lb/>our health &amp; when 
<lb/>we can isolate the 
<lb/>fore &amp; aft compartments 
<lb/>from the coal dust of 
<lb/>the engine room which 
<lb/><choice><sic>putrifies</sic><corr>putrefies</corr></choice> I anticipate 
<lb/>still better results<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>With kindest compt<hi rend="sup">s</hi></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><space extent="3" unit="chars"/>I am &amp;c </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><space extent="3" unit="chars"/><persName>David Livingstone</persName></p>
			
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