Livingstone, David, 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed (fragment), date and place unidentified
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 Item (Correspondence, 5 x 8 in.)
- Date
- undated
- Container
- Item M097
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- Autograph letter signed (fragment), date and place unidentified, commenting on a letter by R. Burton published in the Times (4 pages; accession number M97). Comments on a letter from Richard Burton, as published in The Times, which is critical of him. "I abandoned exploration almost entirely in order to devote all my energies to opening up a channel for lawful commerce with the interior in order merely to stop the slave trade ..."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890708-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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