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				<title>Letter to John Murray III</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Murray III, 4 March 1865</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<date>2008-11-06</date>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">National Library of Scotland; MS. 42421, ff. 47r-48v</bibl>
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				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Murray, John III, 1808-1892</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1865-03-04">4 March 1865</date></bibl>
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				<name xml:id="CO">Caroline Overy</name>Initial Transcription by Caroline Overy
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				<date>2008-11-25</date>
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<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="chars"/>4<hi rend="sup underline">th</hi> March 1865</p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><placeName>Newstead Abbey</placeName></p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Murray</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="1" unit="chars"/>After I had sent off 
<lb/>the corrections of your 
<lb/>friend I regretted 
<lb/>that I had not 
<lb/>incorporated them 
<lb/>into 4<hi rend="sup">th</hi> Revise myself 
<lb/>and sent him new 
<lb/>matter. If you will 
<lb/>kindly return them 
<lb/>namely B. C. D I shall 
<lb/>do so and today 
<lb/>I send pages 43-89 

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<lb/>2<hi rend="sup">nd</hi> Revise - which 
<lb/>are a portion of the 
<lb/>journey up the river 
<lb/>to the <placeName>Falls</placeName>, and if 
<lb/>he will let me have 
<lb/>them back in the 
<lb/>course of the week 
<lb/>I shall then be 
<lb/>able to give him 
<lb/>the narrative 
<w>con-<lb break="no"/>secutively,</w> and I 
<lb/>have no doubt 
<lb/>he may be able to 
<lb/>point out omissions<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>I am glad he mentions 
<lb/>the want of inform

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<lb/>ation about the 
<lb/>"steamers"<reg>.</reg> What I added 
<lb/>will give offence to 
<lb/>no one.</p>
<lb/><p>As by sending back 
<lb/>your friend<reg>'</reg>s corrections 
<lb/>to me &amp; 4<hi rend="sup underline">th</hi> Revise 
<lb/>I relieve him from 
<lb/>the work of in
<lb/>corporating his 
<lb/>corrections. I suppose 
<lb/>he may have gone 
<lb/>over 43-89 now 
<lb/>sent by Wednesday 
<lb/>next and will 
<lb/>therefore send new 
<lb/>matters on that day 

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<lb/>to keep him going - the 
<lb/>reason why the 
<w>con-<lb break="no"/>secutive</w> narrative is 
<lb/>not sent is I made 
<lb/>additions &amp; these have 
<lb/>not come back from 
<lb/><persName>Clowes</persName>. He will do 
<lb/>good service by 
<lb/>going over it as a 
<lb/>whole - there may 
<lb/>be repetitions which 
<lb/>I don<reg>'</reg>t notice - I 
<lb/>think sometimes I walk 
<lb/>into the Portuguese 
<lb/>too savagely. Hoping 
<lb/>you will excuse 
<lb/>this trouble<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">I am &amp;c David Livingstone</p>
			
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