Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (66 page)

Rhodes House, Oxford

Letters of David Livingstone to Horace Waller, including one describing Speke’s funeral. A 17-page letter about Stanley from Horace Waller to Livingstone, and other correspondence about Kirk and Stanley; also correspondence of the Anti-Slavery Society connected with East Africa and the Congo. The original proofs of
Livingstone’s Last Journeys in Central Africa,
containing many passages later excised by Horace Waller, the editor. The diaries of Edward and Frank Pocock – the only written records apart from Stanley’s diaries and despatches of his great trans-Africa journey of 1874-77,.

David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre, Scotland

Miscellaneous Livingstone diaries and journals, including his Unyanyembe Journal, and the field notebooks from which Horace Waller assembled
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa.
Also an ms copy of
Missionary Travels.

Peter and Geoffrey Speke’s Collection, Ilminster, Somerset

Oil portraits, including the famous double portrait with Grant; Speke’s guns, and some correspondence; also Speke’s copy of
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
with the added ‘Tail’ (this book is currently kept in London).

Wellcome Library, Euston Road, London

Diaries of John Petherick and Harriet E. Petherick shedding new light on John Petherick’s bitter dispute with Speke. Letters written by Baker and Livingstone. Papers of Henry S. Wellcome (the pharmaceutical tycoon) and friend of Stanley and his wife, containing letters from them both, and from William Hoffman and A. J. Mountney Jephson.

Public Record Office, Kew

Correspondence between the principal explorers and British Premiers, Foreign Secretaries, officials in the Foreign and Colonial Offices. The opinion of Lord Palmerston on the achievements of Speke and Grant PRO 30/22, Palmerston’s opinion of DL’s colonial ideas PRO 30/22. DL’s correspondence with Lord Clarendon FO 84/1265 and with Lord John Russell FO 63/81. Speke’s Will PRO I.R. 59/68

National Archives of Zimbabwe

Letters from Livingstone to Sir Thomas Maclear and Sir Roderick Murchison; also DL’s letters to FO, Dr John Kirk, Charles Livingstone; James Stewart’s journals, and papers concerning the Zambezi Expedition.

Sanford Museum, Sanford, Florida

The papers of Henry S. Sanford: 48 letters from Stanley, from Leopold II’s personal secretary, Count Borchgrave, from various ministers, from Sir William Mackinnon, A. B. Swinburne and E. J. Glave.

Diplomatic Archive and Africa Archive, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brussels

Nine alleged copies, in a secretarial hand, of treaties with Congolese chiefs purporting to be verbatim transcripts of vanished originals signed by Stanley. One original treaty bears Stanley’s signature and is dated Vivi 13.06.1880.

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