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				<title>Letter to John Murray III</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Murray III, 12 October 1864</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2008-11-25</date>
				<publisher>Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL</publisher>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">National Library of Scotland; MS. 42420, ff. 11r-12v</bibl>
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				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Murray, John III, 1808-1892</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1864-10-12">12 October 1864</date></bibl>
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				<date>2008-11-25</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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				<date>2008-12-06</date>
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<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/>12 Oct<hi rend="sup">r</hi> 1864 </p>
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<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Murray</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="3" unit="chars"/>My brother having 
<lb/><choice><sic>recieved</sic><corr>received</corr></choice> the 
<w>Appoint-<lb break="no"/>ment</w> of consul at 
<lb/><placeName>Fernando Po</placeName> is 
<lb/>naturally desirous 
<lb/>of visiting his 
<lb/>family in <placeName>Boston</placeName>
<lb/><placeName>America</placeName>, and 
<lb/>would be glad if 
<lb/>an arrangement 
<lb/>could be made 

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<lb/>with an American 
<lb/>publisher while he is 
<lb/>within call. I suppose 
<lb/>his wife might be 
<lb/>made his agent in 
<lb/>his absence but 
<lb/>I don<reg>'</reg>t know about 
<lb/>the agreement with 
<lb/>a publisher. So 
<lb/>I write to you in 
<lb/>order that if you 
<lb/>can do anything 
<lb/>in the matter you 
<lb/>may tell us. </p>

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<lb/><p>I am getting on very 
<lb/>well I think. My 
<lb/>brother<reg>'</reg>s journal 
<lb/>is interesting from 
<lb/>its being first 
<lb/>impressions and 
<lb/>I see that he has 
<lb/>caught many things 
<lb/>said by the natives 
<lb/>which I translated 
<lb/>for him at the 
<lb/>moment and I 
<lb/>think they give a 
<lb/>better idea of what 
<lb/>they do actually 
<lb/>say &amp; think than 
<lb/>what is given by 
<lb/>some others<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>However you will be 
<lb/>better able to judge 
<lb/><persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> &amp; M<hi rend="sup underline">rs</hi> Webb</persName> help to 
<lb/>no mean extent in 
<lb/>copying - <persName>Captain 
<lb/>Need</persName> is at the drawings 
<lb/>and altogether I can 
<lb/>report satisfactory 
<lb/>progress. If you 
<lb/>can manage the 
<lb/>first proposition of 
<lb/>this please tell my 
<lb/>brother at your 
<w>con-<lb break="no"/>venience</w> - &amp; oblige 
<lb/>Yours ever </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><space extent="1" unit="chars"/><persName>David Livingstone</persName></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">His address is <placeName>Hadleigh House</placeName>
<lb/><space extent="1" unit="words"/><placeName>Highbury New Park</placeName></p>
			
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