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Title: Letter from Livingston to Murray, 21 Oct 1864

Author(s): Livingstone, David

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1864. 7th Novr
D Livingstone


Newstead Abbey,
Mansfield, Notts.

7 Novr 1864

My Dear Mr Murray


Mrs Goodlake
obliges me by taking
up two small
books with astro-nomical
observations
worked out for
Mr Arrowsmith
but I don't send
the sketches by





Dr Meller which I
mentioned to Cooke
as a lady comes
tomorrow who
may construct
something out of
them for me —


A small tract
of Archbishop
Whately & published
by Parker & Co I
think teaches that
several things




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such as iron-making
fire &c &c indicate
Divine revelation
[¿] to shew
by the similarity
of a great many
things the probability
that this was the
case. Can you
get me the tract
indicated — the
name I have forgot
It is an Argument
for a Revelation





from some things
that savage man
could not have
attained without
divine aid — If you
can you will
oblige Yours ever

David Livingstone