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				<title>Letter to Horace Waller</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to Horace Waller, 20 April 1863</title>
				<author>Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">Bodleian Library. Weston Library; Waller MSS. Afr. s. 16.1, 19-20</bibl>
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				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1863-04-20">20 April 1863</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">[Murchison's Cataracts?]</bibl>
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<lb/><p rend="center"><date when="1863-04-20">20<hi rend="sup underline">th</hi> April 1863</date></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My dear <persName>Waller</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="1" unit="chars"/>My conscience 
<lb/>reproved me for 
<lb/>saying some things 
<lb/>to you which I 
<lb/>ought not to have 
<lb/>said but I was too 
<lb/>much of an ass 
<lb/>to confess it. I 
<lb/>ought not to have 
<lb/>said that the <term type="tribe">Makololo</term>
<lb/>began to capture 
<lb/><term type="animal">sheep</term> &amp; <term type="animal">goats</term> under 

       

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<lb/><orgName>Episcopal</orgName> sanction 
<lb/>It is possible that you 
<lb/>may have taken up 
<lb/>reports with too 
<lb/>much facility but 
<lb/>I ought not to have 
<lb/>said that you did 
<lb/>or anything else 
<lb/>that might give 
<lb/>you pain. I am 
<lb/>heartily sorry for 
<lb/>it and have 
<lb/>grieved over it 
<lb/>again &amp; again. I 
<lb/>hoped to tell you 
<lb/>so when we met 

       

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<lb/>but might then 
<lb/>lack an opportunity 
<lb/>In my heart &amp; soul 
<lb/>I feel kindly to you 
<lb/>all and what came 
<lb/>out and anything 
<lb/>else you may 
<lb/>have disliked 
<lb/>you must please 
<lb/>take as not 
<lb/>according to the 
<lb/>general current 
<lb/>of my affections 
<lb/>I feel that we 
<lb/>ought all to be 

       

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<lb/>trying who can be 
<lb/>kindest to each 
<lb/>other - I believe 
<lb/>you will take this 
<lb/>note in the spirit 
<lb/>I send it and I 
<lb/>trust till death 
<lb/>parts another 
<lb/>will not be 
<lb/>necessary</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><space extent="1" unit="chars"/>I am Affectionately</p>
<lb/><p>Yours</p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><persName>David Livingstone</persName></p>
			
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