Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries) Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Correspondence, 5 x 8 in.)
Container:
Item M097
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents note:
Autograph letter signed (fragment), date and place unidentified, commenting on a letter by R. Burton published in the Times (4 pages; accession number M97). Comments on a letter from Richard Burton, as published in The Times, which is critical of him. "I abandoned exploration almost entirely in order to devote all my energies to opening up a channel for lawful commerce with the interior in order merely to stop the slave trade ..."
Collection Rights:
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