Autograph letter signed ("David Livingstone"), to his publisher Robert Cooke at John Murray's, written on his return from the Zambesi Expedition, outlining his requirements for somewhere to stay "for three probably four months" ("...one sitting room and three bedrooms and a servants room – We shall try to get a servant. My idea is to get a cottage near London but in the country say 2 hours by Railway – My daughter to keep it with one maid of all work whom she is trying to engage – to hire furniture for 3 or 4 months – I shall only have my second son & daughter with me: and dont wish to hire expensively – We would prefer a cottage to ourselves..."); mentioning that "Dr Meller late of our expedition" has a brother who is a house agent, and that he will be looking out for him; in a postscript, he asks Cooke to tell Murray that he has been invited by Lord Kinnaird and the Duke of Argyll but "shall make my visits every where as short as possible & soon be back", and asking for the life of Bishop Mackenzie, 4 pages, very light dust-staining but overall in good and attractive condition, 8vo , Hamilton, 6 August 1864
Autograph letter signed ("David Livingstone"), to his publisher Robert Cooke at John Murray's, written on his return from the Zambesi Expedition, outlining his requirements for somewhere to stay "for three probably four months" ("...one sitting room and three bedrooms and a servants room – We shall try to get a servant. My idea is to get a cottage near London but in the country say 2 hours by Railway – My daughter to keep it with one maid of all work whom she is trying to engage – to hire furniture for 3 or 4 months – I shall only have my second son & daughter with me: and dont wish to hire expensively – We would prefer a cottage to ourselves..."); mentioning that "Dr Meller late of our expedition" has a brother who is a house agent, and that he will be looking out for him; in a postscript, he asks Cooke to tell Murray that he has been invited by Lord Kinnaird and the Duke of Argyll but "shall make my visits every where as short as possible & soon be back", and asking for the life of Bishop Mackenzie, 4 pages, very light dust-staining but overall in good and attractive condition, 8vo , Hamilton, 6 August 1864
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