Letters by Livingstone
- Date:
- Mid 19th century - late 19th century
- Reference:
- MS.7329/1-70
- Part of:
- Livingstone, David (1813-1873), medical missionary and explorer
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Autograph letters, signed, by David Livingstone: some fragmentary.
Correspondents include Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) (no.1); Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893) (no.13); Professor John Thomas Quekett (1815-1861), histologist and Conservator of the Hunterian Museum (no.31); Robert Gray (1809-1872), Bishop of Cape Town (no.39), mentioning Charles Frederick Mackenzie (1825-1862); Sir Henry Bartle Frere (1815-1889), Governor, Bombay (no.45); Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) (no.51); Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) (nos.56-57); and William Cotton Oswell (1818-1893) (no.66).
Material dated 1841-1865 and n.d.
Publication/Creation
Mid 19th century - late 19th century
Physical description
70 items
Finding aids
Described in typescript finding aids by Richard Palmer, Richard Aspin, Keith Moore and Christopher Hilton.