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SOAS Archive
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| id |
CWM.LMS.04.08.07.01.046
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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 3
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| callnumber |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/046
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| callnumber_txt |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/046
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| callnumber-sort |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/046
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| scb_alt_ref_no |
Livingstone Wooden Box, item 46
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| prefix_number |
046
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| title |
46. David Livingston [Livingstone], Kolobeng, to Rev Arthur Tidman, Mission House, Blomfield Street, London
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| scb_date_creation |
26 May 1849
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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 |
Describes the severe drought in the region, the struggle of the local people to survive and the impact that this has had on attendance at meetings and school; the Bakaa [baKaa] (suffering from repeated attacks by the baNgwato) have travelled a distance of 150 miles to join the Bakwains [baKwena], "attracted thither by the report that Sechele had embraced the 'word of peace'"; another attempt made to place Paul with 'Mokhatla's tribe' [the chief having requested that Paul become his teacher], but hindered by the Boers who have taken possession of the whole region and their opposition to the aims of the mission; Boers accuse Livingstone of planning to take possession of the region for the English Government and introducing firearms to the indigenous people; dialogue with Boer Commandant [Andries Hendrik Potgieter, Chief Commandant of the Boers in the Transvaal] and meeting with a deputation sent by the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Colony and apparent agreement by the Boers for Livingstone to proceed with his missionary endeavours in the region; subsequent demand sent by Boers to the LMS District Committee that Livingstone be immediately recalled from Kolobeng, failing which the Boers would take steps to expel him; Livingstone's resolve not to leave; belief by Boers that Livingstone has sold Sechele 500 guns and a canon and that he was acting as a 'Government spy'; the difficulties of converting the Bechuana people to Christianity and the imperative to extend the gospel to all of the surrounding peoples; as the East seems to be closed for the time being attentions have turned northward; visit by a party of seven men from the Lake [Ngami] to invite them to come [messengers from the chief of the baTwana]; news of proposed visit by Rev J. J. Freeman to the African stations; Mrs Livingstone and their children sent to Kuruman "for the sake of refreshment"; news that "Sechele, in his peculiarly difficult position, fell before the power of temptation once since he was baptized" [Sechele had impregnated one of his former wives and for this 'offence' he was suspended from communion], but comments positively on Sechele's spirit and general conduct; birth of their son in March last and Mrs Livingstone's plans to resume the infant school as soon as she returns from Kuruman; thanks for medicines forwarded by the Directors.
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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.0004.0008.0007.0001.00046
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