47. David Livingston [Livingstone], Kolobeng, to Rev J. J. Freeman, Kuruman or elsewhere

Entreats Rev Freeman to reconsider visiting further north than Kuruman [as part of his Deputation]; journey to Lake Ngami has taken longer than expected and he has been absent from Kolobeng for eight months this year; Mrs Livingstone and the children have been alone at Kolobeng for two months; oxen...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 3
Date(s) of creation: 14 Nov 1849
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collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.04.08.07.01.047
recordtype archive
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 3
callnumber CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/047
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/047
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/047
scb_alt_ref_no Livingstone Wooden Box, item 47
prefix_number 047
title 47. David Livingston [Livingstone], Kolobeng, to Rev J. J. Freeman, Kuruman or elsewhere
scb_date_creation 14 Nov 1849
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 Joseph John Freeman (1794-1851), LMS missionary and Foreign Secretary, appointed as a Deputation to visit the Society's stations in South Africa in 1848, arrived at Cape Town in February 1849 and completed his work by July 1850.
description Entreats Rev Freeman to reconsider visiting further north than Kuruman [as part of his Deputation]; journey to Lake Ngami has taken longer than expected and he has been absent from Kolobeng for eight months this year; Mrs Livingstone and the children have been alone at Kolobeng for two months; oxen unfit and unable to travel further; refers to Freeman's speech delivered in Cape Town re the failure of the Niger Expedition [1841] in finding a route to the Interior of Africa [to develop 'natural resources and legitimate trade' as a means of displacing the traffic in slaves] and Livingstone's conviction that "This discovery belongs to Missionaries"; asks Freeman to come and give his advice on the work being done; the alternative is that the north "be left to traders & Boers?"
scb_access_status Open
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0004.0008.0007.0001.00047

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