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SOAS Archive
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| id |
CWM.LMS.04.08.07.01.040
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| recordtype |
archive
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| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| scb_loan_type |
Reference only
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| scb_order_with |
CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 2, 2A
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| callnumber |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/040
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| callnumber_txt |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/040
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| callnumber-sort |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/040
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| scb_alt_ref_no |
Livingstone Wooden Box, item 40
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| prefix_number |
040
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| title |
40. David Livingston [Livingstone], Chonuane [Chonwane], to Rev David G. Watt, Almorah, East Indies
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| scb_date_creation |
17 Jan 1847
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| scb_level |
Item
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| level_sort |
8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
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| scb_extent |
4pp
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| format |
Archive
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| description |
Personal letter; discusses Watt's recovery and return to India; refers to his new son [Robert Moffat Livingstone]; describes journey east with his family; notes the more densely populated areas and the tensions between the indigenous peoples and the Boors [Boers] who are finding their way into these regions; describes a Boer raid; encounters with Boers have inspired fear against all white men; feels there are more missionaries in the Colony ("French, German, English, Scotch, Wesleyan &c &c") than the region requires, and enumerates the various mission personnel in each station; the "real missionary stations have long ago served their purpose" (such as Bethelsdorp and Hankey); describes his preferred method of leaving a community "under native instruction" and moving on as soon as possible; local practices of spinning with cotton and working with tin and copper; refers to the need for an institution for training teachers and the opposition encountered to this in the District Committee; his desire to have "as little to do with the other missionaries as possible. I have had nought but grief & injury from them"; death of Mrs Ross from dysentry; Inglis away in the Colony for supplies - complains that missionaries frequently leave their posts for months at a time to do this and his determination not to visit the Colony if he can avoid it; loss of geological specimens on the railroad; difficulty in preserving animal specimens due to the heat; has sent valuable seeds to Calcutta; describes particular trees and roots he has observed; describes a type of fly that will prevent travelling North with waggons or horses [Tsetse]; refers to fever near the coast; asks "Who will penetrate through Africa?".
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| scb_access_status |
Open
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| scb_use_restrictions |
For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
CWM
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| hierarchy_sequence |
CWM.00LMS.0004.0008.0007.0001.00040
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