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    <mods:title>Letter to John Kirk 2</mods:title>
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    <mods:title>Letter to John Kirk 2, 25 March 1871</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:roleTerm type='text'>addressee</mods:roleTerm>
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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:publisher>Livingstone Online (http://livingstoneonline.org/)</mods:publisher>
    <mods:dateCreated>25 March 1871</mods:dateCreated>
    <mods:dateCreated encoding='iso8601'>1871-03-25</mods:dateCreated>
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    <mods:place>
      <mods:placeTerm type='text'>Webb's Lualaba or Lacustrine River across another great bend to the West of about 100°</mods:placeTerm>
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  <mods:originInfo displayLabel='LoC'>
    <mods:place>
      <mods:placeTerm type='text'>Maniema (Congo)</mods:placeTerm>
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    <mods:note type='physical details'>Complete manuscript in creator's hand</mods:note>
    <mods:extent unit='pages'>2</mods:extent>
    <mods:note>1 folio, folded to create 2 pages, with writing on 2 pages</mods:note>
    <mods:extent unit='mm'>341 x 118</mods:extent>
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      <mods:shelfLocator>MS. 10768, 80</mods:shelfLocator>
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    <mods:accessCondition type='use and reproduction'>Images &amp;#169; National Library of Scotland. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).</mods:accessCondition>
    <mods:accessCondition type='use and reproduction'>As relevant, &amp;#169; Dr. Neil Imray Livingstone Wilson. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).</mods:accessCondition>
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    <mods:identifier>Reginald Coupland, Livingstone's Last Journey London: Collins, 1945), 109-114.</mods:identifier>
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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), 145-150.</mods:identifier>
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