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    <mods:title>Letter to John Kirk 2</mods:title>
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    <mods:title>Letter to John Kirk 2, 13 December 1865</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Kirk, John 2, 1832-1922</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:description>Medical Officer and Economic Botanist to Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition. Appointed Surgeon to the British Consulate in Zanzibar in 1865. As H.M. Consul, his skillful diplomacy increased British influence with successive Sultans that resulted in the demise of the East African slave trade.</mods:description>
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    <mods:dateCreated>13 December 1865</mods:dateCreated>
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    <mods:identifier>Reginald Foskett, ed., The Zambesi Doctors: David Livingstone's Letters to John Kirk, 1858-1872 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1964), 131-132.</mods:identifier>
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