LIVINGSTONE (DAVID)
Autograph letter signed ("David Livingstone"), to "My Dear Sir" [his publisher John Murray], informing him that he has just had a call from Mrs Grimstone, sister of "a young artist who died at Lake Ngami 1850" whose "drawings about 20 in number are very truthful & good"; he goes on however to explain that Stevenson, the companion who brought them back to England, refuses to part with them ("...When Mrs G. applied for them Mrs Stevenson sent one of a part of Lake Ngami saying that she knew of no other. But Mrs G. got the impression of her husband boasting of having so many fine African engravings. And I was shewn a fine drawing of Koloberg & another Bechuana town [as well as that of Lake Ngami deleted] by the artist himself" and asking if it "Would it be practicable to get engravings of these by fair means?", adding that "They would be better I think than Mr Wolf's compositions" and suggesting the family's feelings be mollified by having the artist's name put to them, 4 pages, 8vo, 57 Sloane Street, 28 January no year [1857]