The Zambesi Doctors. David Livingstone's Letters to John Kirk. 1858:72. Edited, with an Introduction, by R. Foskett

Edité par Edinburgh At the University Press 1964, 1964

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First edition of David Livingstone's letters to the Scottish colonial administrator, explorer, and botanist Sir John Kirk (1832-1922), edited by the husband of Kirk's granddaughter, Daphne Foskett. 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A near fine copy. In his introduction Foskett writes that the 'series of letters written by Dr David Livingstone to Dr (later Sir) John Kirk, and now published in this volume, began in 1858 when the two men were first brought together over the preparations for the British Government Expedition to the Zambesi, which Livingstone had been invited to lead. The correspondence concluded in 1872, one year before the explorer's death at Chitambo's village, Ilala, at a time when he was completely cut off from the civilised world and Kirk was British Consul and Political Agent at Zanzibar. The letters fall into four distinct groups but they are bound together by a connecting thread, a common interest in African exploration with a view to suppressing the slave trade which had its centre and markets at Zanzibar'. Only 14 of the series of 64 letters collected here had previously been published, and they are supplemented by three related letters by David Livingstone and his daughter Agnes Livingstone. The volume concludes with notes on the letters, a list of the letters, and an index. Reviewing the work, Ronald Miller judged that these 'letters are a valuable addition to our knowledge of Livingstone, for his intimacy with Kirk leads him to write more freely than in the published journals' (The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 44 (1965), p. 183). This copy (although without identifying marks) was previously in the noted collection of the explorer and bibliophile Quentin Keynes, who travelled extensively in Africa throughout the second half of the twentieth century, and collected a remarkable library of books and manuscripts relating to the exploration of Africa.…

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The Zambesi Doctors. David Livingstone's Letters to John Kirk. 1858:72. Edited, with an Introduction, by R. Foskett
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LIVINGSTONE, Dr David
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Edinburgh At the University Press 1964
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1964
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