15. David Livingston [Livingstone], Kuruman, to Henry Drummond, Hamilton, Lanarkshire

Describes travelling with oxen; intends to remain for two months (with Mr Edwards) for the purpose of acquiring the colloquial language before proceeding north where he intends to live "excluded from all European society", a course of action he considers absolutely necessary for one beginning the la...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 2, 1B
Date(s) of creation: 4 Aug 1841
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 2, 1B
callnumber CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/015
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/015
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scb_alt_ref_no Livingstone Wooden Box, item 15
prefix_number 015
title 15. David Livingston [Livingstone], Kuruman, to Henry Drummond, Hamilton, Lanarkshire
scb_date_creation 4 Aug 1841
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 4pp
format Archive
scb_admin_history Henry Drummond, described as a lace manufacturer, was based at different addresses in Hamilton and Glasgow during the period of the correspondence and sent out supplies of clothing and drapery to Livingstone.
description Describes travelling with oxen; intends to remain for two months (with Mr Edwards) for the purpose of acquiring the colloquial language before proceeding north where he intends to live "excluded from all European society", a course of action he considers absolutely necessary for one beginning the language, "I must form my own vocabulary, and nearly construct my own Grammar, and I must so mingle with the natives as to learn accurately their mode of thinking, or I shall never be of much use as a preacher"; comments on Moffat's plans to publish a grammar and dictionary and how invaluable this will be to all future missionaries; comments favourably on the indigenous Christians that he encounters; describes coming across a Bechuana village (in the search for water) which had a "native teacher" connected with the Griqua Town Mission, meeting with the village Chief and the purchase of Sitchuana [seTswana] Testaments; states how much more he thinks could be achieved were there the means for the employment of a "native agency" in Africa.
scb_access_status Open
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
scb_publications Transcription available in Some Letters from Livingstone, 1840-1872, Ed. David Chamberlin (Oxford University Press, 1940), p.24
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0004.0008.0007.0001.00015

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