| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
CWM.LMS.04.08.07.01.065
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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 3
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| callnumber |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/065
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| callnumber_txt |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/065
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| callnumber-sort |
CWM/LMS/04/08/07/01/065
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| scb_alt_ref_no |
Livingstone Wooden Box, item 65
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| prefix_number |
065
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| title |
65. David Livingston [Livingstone], Schiet Fontein [Skietfontein], to William Thompson, Church Square, Cape Town
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| scb_date_creation |
[20 Jul] 1852
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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 |
8pp
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| format |
Archive
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| description |
Refers to Commandant Potgeiter who has gone to a tribunal [following a letter of January 1849 to the District Committee demanding David Livingstone's recall]; recalls details of the incident, including the resolution of the Bakwains [baKwena] to defend him against the Boers and to fight with them if necessary; staying at the house of Mr Alheit [Rev Christopher W. Alheit of the Rhenish Missionary Society, stationed at Skeitfontein since 1847]; account of journey so far; describes difficulties of travel with oxen and waggon; has not yet met with George [George Fleming, see letter 64]; busy with the Dictionary [Livingstone's Dictionary of the seTswana Language], which he writes whilst in the waggon; has been reading "the tour of the Bishop" ['A Journal of the Bishop's Visitation Tour through the Cape Colony, in 1850', by Robert Gray, Anglican Bishop of Cape Town since 1847] and comments on it; has heard nothing of the Caffre war since he left; speaks well of Mr Alheit and his doctrinal beliefs; loss of his horse "a great affliction"; refers to Malatsi [a baKwena tribesman who had accompanied Livingstone to Cape Town as a servant, who subsequently went to the MaKololo with the ill-fated missionary party under Hellmore (1859-1860), of which he was the first member to die].
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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.0004.0008.0007.0001.00065
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