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				<title>Letter to Horace Waller</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to Horace Waller, 21 April 1863</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<date>2012</date>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">Bodleian Library. Weston Library; Waller MSS. Afr. s. 16.1, ff. 13-14</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="ccnumber">Letters, 1333</bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Waller, Horace, 1833-1896</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1863-04-21">21 April 1863</date></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="where">[Murchison's Cataracts?]</bibl>
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<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><date when="1863-04-21">21<hi rend="sup underline">st</hi> April 1863</date> - 2 <choice><abbr>P.M.</abbr><expan>Prime Meridian</expan></choice></p>
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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>Waller</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="2" unit="words"/><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>I have to be 
<lb/>the bearer of heavy tidings 
<lb/>for Poor <persName>Thornton</persName>
<lb/>expired about 10 this 
<lb/>morning.  His case was 
<lb/>serious when I wrote 
<lb/>you yesterday but we 
<lb/>had him on board the 
<lb/>Pioneer and a place 
<lb/>rigged up for him 
<lb/>&amp; hoped that the change 
<lb/>and constant attendance 
<lb/>here might with youth 
<lb/>&amp; an unimpaired



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<lb/>constitution enable to weather 
<lb/>the attack of which you 
<lb/>saw the commencement 
<lb/>He was <term type="ailment">delirious</term> in the 
<lb/>evening and continued so 
<lb/><persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Meller</persName> was by him 
<lb/>the whole night &amp; did 
<lb/>everything that man 
<lb/>could do - We must 
<lb/>bow to the will of Him 
<lb/>who ordered all things. 
<lb/>I feel the blow extremely 
<lb/>and scarcely know what 
<lb/>to say or what to think. 
<lb/>We have a number of 
<lb/>sick <persName>Magrath</persName> - <persName>Pearce</persName>
<lb/>&amp; this morning <persName>Wilson</persName>
<lb/>with one <placeName><settlement>Johanna</settlement></placeName> man.



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<lb/>My brother was down but is 
<lb/>up again this morning</p>
<lb/><p>We have cut an opening 
<lb/>in the vegetation for a few 
<lb/>miles and found a gradual 
<lb/>slope up to the plateau.  I 
<lb/>would have tried the first 
<lb/>load today or tomorrow 
<lb/>but for our affliction</p>
<lb/><p>Whatever of <persName>Thornton</persName>'s 
<lb/>goods remain with your 
<lb/><del type="cancelled">charge</del>will of course 
<lb/>be taken charge of carefully 
<lb/>We must take up his bills 
<lb/>for the sheep and goats. 
<lb/><persName>Clementino</persName> being an honest 
<lb/>man no difficulty will 
<lb/>arise.  It was a prudent
<lb/>step to avoid complications 



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<lb/>with slaves - They have had a ba<supplied cert="high">d</supplied>
<lb/>education and always retain 
<lb/>the slavish character.</p>
<lb/><p><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">s</hi> Young</persName> sends the tackle &amp; block 
<lb/>but of copper nails we have none 
<lb/>something will be sent instead</p>
<lb/><p>I am glad that you like <add place="below">^</add> <add place="above">Rajah</add><persName>Brooke</persName>
<lb/>He is a brick - though he has had 
<lb/>to bear much misrepresentations 
<lb/>I trust he will be seen coming 
<lb/>out clear at last.  Some sweet 
<lb/>things have been said of your servant 
<lb/>I keep them to place them over against 
<lb/>the bitter - A minister once gave 
<lb/>my wife great comfort by 
<lb/>saying "he must <add place="below">^</add> <add place="above">take</add> the bitter with 
<lb/>the sweet in Providence." I 
<lb/>hope your sick are improving 
<lb/>Present my kindest salutations 
<lb/>&amp; believe me Ever Yours</p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>David Livingstone</p>
			
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