Good Wives
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1 1. 18 – ‘a missionary … an oar’: Robert Moffat (RM) to his father, April 1819, John Smith Moffat, The Lives of Robert and Mary Moffat.
2 1. 28 – ‘you know … solitude’: Mary Moffat (MM) to RM, 28 July 1824, Moffat, Lives.
3 1. n – ‘keeping … improper’: MM to Miss Lees, 15 September 1830, Moffat, Lives.
4 11. 16, 17 – ‘she bore … dangerous passage’: MM to RM, 2 May 1836, Moffat, Lives.
5 1. 4 – ‘everywhere … plant’: MM to R. Hamilton, 25 November 1840, Moffat, Lives.
6 1. 18 – ‘foolish … conundrums’: David Livingstone (DL) to Mrs Sewell, 7 April 1842, National Library of Scotland, MS 10775.
7 1. 30 – ‘for the happiness … roof’: DL to Mrs Sewell, 3 August 1840, National Library of Scotland, MS 10780.
8 1. 17 – ‘a good stock … philosophy’: DL to Benjamin Pyne, 22 June 1843, London Missionary Society (LMS), Africa Odds, Box 14 (School of African and Oriental Studies [SOAS], University of London).
9 1. 26 – ‘with respect … in Africa’: DL to D. G. Watt, 7 July 1841, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 3 (SOAS).
10 1. 34 – ‘My friends … experiment’: DL to B. Pyne, 22 June 1843, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 1 (SOAS).
11 1. 2 – ‘miserably … ladies’: DL to D. G. Watt, 23 September 1841, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 3 (SOAS).
12 1. 6 – ‘not the thing … saucy’: DL to B. Pyne, 22 December 1841, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 1 (SOAS).
13 1. 2 – ‘criminal … congress’: I. Schapera (ed.), Livingstone’s Private Journals 1851–53.
14 1. 7 – ‘a matter of fact … I want’: DL to D. G. Watt, 2 April 1845, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 3 (SOAS).
15 1. 5 – ‘Mr Livingstone’s … event’: RM to Dr Philip, January 1845, LMS Archives.
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1 1. 7 – ‘The woman … connection’: DL to D. G. Watt, 23 May 1845, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 2 (SOAS).
2 1. 11 – ‘abundantly … bachelor’: DL to Mrs Sewell, 19 April 1851, National Library of Scotland.
3 1. 11 – ‘Our visit … there, too’: DL to Mrs Sewell, 20 September 1847, National Library of Scotland.
4 1. 21 – ‘Chonwane … beginning’: DL to Mrs Sewell, 20 September 1847, National Library of Scotland.
5 1. 5 – ‘respectable … will do’: DL to H. Drummond, 19 June 1848, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 2 (SOAS).
6 1. 19 – ‘My poor … again’: DL to his brother Charles Livingstone, 16 May 1849, I. Schapera (ed.), David Livingstone: Family Letters 1841–56, vol. ii.
7 1. 24 – ‘I must … field’: quoted by MM to DL, Schapera (ed.), Livingstone’s Private Journals [the letter itself did not survive].
8 1. 1 – ‘My dear Livingstone … perturbation’: MM to DL, Schapera (ed.), Livingstone’s Private Journals; DL quotes her letter, September 1851.
9 1. 22 – ‘Mary … illness’: DL to parents, February 1851, Schapera (ed.), Family Letters, vol. ii.
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1 1. 23 – ‘A very good … ladies’: DL to RM, 22 January 1852, Schapera (ed.), Family Letters, vol. ii.
2 1. 29 – ‘How I miss … you better’: DL to ML, 5 May 1852, Schapera (ed.), Family Letters, vol. ii.
3 1. 35 – ‘I should feel … disease’: DL to Tidman (T), April 1852, LMS,
4 Africa Odds, Box 14 (SOAS). 1. 1 – ‘after our … changed person’: Neil Livingstone (NL) to T, 24 June 1853.
5 1. 14 – ‘we feel anxious … much’: NL to T, 25 June 1853, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 2 (SOAS).
6 1. 1 – ‘as you so kindly … expenses’: ML to T, November 1853, LMS, Wooden Box [the same reference applies to all ML letters to T].
7 1. 7 – ‘each has … hand’: DL to ML, 20 March 1855, Schapera (ed.), Family Letters, vol. ii.
8 1. 38 – ‘I have asked … country’: ML to T, 12 January 1854, LMS, Wooden Box.
9 poem – quoted by W. G. Blaikie in The Personal Life of David Livingstone (1880).
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1 1. 8 – ‘she and the young ’un … expedition’: R. Foskett (ed.), The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr John Kirk 1858–63, 2 vols. [The same source applies in all quotes of Kirk’s.]
2 1. 30 – ‘this is a great trial … hindrance’: J. P. R. Wallis (ed.), The Zambesi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858–1863.
3 1. 26 – ‘It was a bitter … out of one’: DL to James Young, 1 May 1858, G. Seaver, David Livingstone: His Life and Letters.
4 1. 39 – ‘surely we shall be drowned’: Emily Moffat to her father, J. P. R. Wallis (ed.), The Matabele Mission: A Selection from the Correspondence of John and Emily Moffat, David Livingstone and others 1858–1878. [All Emily Moffat quotes come from this source.]
5 1. 13 – ‘only with … so much’: ML to Mrs Fitch, 20 August 1831, National Library of Scotland.
6 1. 21 – ‘I received … orders have come’: ML to Mrs Fitch, 13 July 1861, National Archives of Zimbabwe.
7 1. 24 – ‘some of them … worse’: O. Chadwick, Mackenzie’s Grave.
8 1. 4 – ‘a motherly … déshabille’: W. C. Devereux, A Cruise in the Gorgon. [All Devereux quotes come from this source.]
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1 1. 16 – ‘proving to be … child’: Chadwick, Mackenzie’s Grave. 1. 27 – ‘My dearie … Jesus?’: Schapera (ed.), Livingstone’s Journal.
2 1. 36 – ‘With a sore … so and so’: DL to MM, 29 April 1862, National Library of Scotland.
3 1. 14 – ‘At Kolobeng … was she’: DL to Lady Murchison, Schapera (ed.), Family Letters, vol. ii. 1. 34 – ‘It is the first … the more’: Blaikie, Personal Life of David Livingstone.
4 1. 12 – ‘as much pleasure … wife’ – DL to Mrs Robinson, 24 October 1862, LMS, Africa Odds, Box 2 (SOAS).
Fanny Stevenson
Fanny’s daughter Belle wrote a memoir of her mother (Isobel Osbourne Strong, This Life I Have Loved) and so did her sister Nellie (Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, The Life of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson). These two volumes provide much material, particularly on Fanny’s early life, and so do two biographies of her: Margaret MacKay, The Violent Friend: The Story of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson; and Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny [though this one is heavily fictionalised]. But by far the most important source for knowledge of Fanny after she married Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS), apart from her own diary (The Cruise of the ‘Janet Nichol’ among the South Sea Islands) and the account she wrote with RLS of ‘Our Samoan Adventure’, is Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew (eds), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 vols. Many letters written by Fanny herself are included, mostly as part of letters written by RLS himself, but also as footnotes to the main text. These often show her in a new and sympathetic light.
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1 1. 37 – ‘When in … assistance’: Belle, quoted in Margaret Mackay, The Violent Friend.
2 1. 9 – ‘only … of you’: RLS to Mrs Sitwell, Booth and Mehew (eds), Letters, vol. 1, 26 January 1873.
3 1. 14 – ‘a good … move’: RLS to Mrs Sitwell, Letters, vol. 1, 7 January 1876.
4 1. 20 – ‘I was greatly … ladies’: RLS to Mrs Sitwell, Letters, vol. 2, 7 December 1873.
5 1. 28 – ‘Life is … heart’: RLS to Mrs Sitwell, Letters, vol. 2, November 1876.
6 1. 31 – ‘I am … love’: RLS to Chas Baxter (CB), Letters, vol. 2, November 1876.
7 1. 36 – ‘love … marriage’: RLS to CB, Letters, vol. 2, April 1877.
8 1. 6 – ‘the solemn … kitten’: Fanny Stevenson (FS) to T. Rearden, Letters, vol. 2, 27 November 1877.
9 1. 16 – ‘I want … badly’: RLS to S. Colvin, Letters, vol. 2, 1 January 1878.
10 1. 19 – ‘We have … month’: RLS to Mrs Sitwell, Letters, February 1878.
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1 1. 8 – ‘true cause … come’: RLS to Colvin, Letters, vol. 2, April 1879.
2 1. 24 – ‘perhaps … delicate’: RLS to Colvin, Letters, vol. 2, March 1879.
3 1. 22 – ‘the impersonation …’: RLS to Gosse, Letters, vol. 2, J
uly 1879.
4 1. 25 – ‘Hold tight …’: quoted in Lapierre, Romance of Destiny.
5 1. 28 – ‘Fanny seems …’: RLS to Bob Stevenson, Letters, vol. 3, August 1879.
6 1. 34 – ‘I hoped … up’: Henley to Baxter, Letters, vol. 3, 16 August 1879.
7 1. 35 – ‘The effect … out’: RLS to Baxter, Letters, vol. 3, October 1879.
8 1. 15 – ‘I won’t …’: RLS to Henley, Letters, vol. 3, November 1879.
9 1. 20 – ‘few people … mine will be’: RLS to Gosse, Letters, vol. 3, January 1880.
10 1. 20 – ‘I do try …’: FS to Margaret Stevenson (MS) [joint letter with RLS], Letters, vol. 3, July 1880.
11 1. 34 – ‘I don’t care …’: MS to FS [footnote, p. 89], Letters, vol. 3.
12 1. 4 – ‘They are … otherwise’ – RLS to Jacob Van de Grift, Letters, vol. 3, July 1880.
13 1. 11 – ‘his mother … dolls’: FS to Dora Williams [joint letter with RLS], Letters, vol. 3, October 1880.
14 1. 16 – ‘A couple of Babes …’: Henley to Baxter, Letters, vol. 3, May 1881.
15 1. 17 – ‘this fat …’: RLS to Belle, Letters, vol. 3, November 1880.
16 1. 26 – ‘The word OBESITY …’: RLS to parents, Letters, vol. 3, November 1880.
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1 1. 16 – ‘be brought … foolish’: FS to Henley [joint letter with RLS], Letters, vol. 3, July 1881.
2 1. 36 – ‘the pert … rewritten’: RLS to Henley, Letters, vol. 3, February 1881.
3 1. 35 – ‘I am not fit …’: RLS to MS, Letters, vol. 3, December 1881.
4 1. 7 – ‘I am eaten …’: RLS to Henley, Letters, vol. 3, April 1882.
5 1. 27 – ‘And I don’t want … for you’: FS to Dora Williams [footnote, p. 153], Letters, vol. 3, February 1887.
6 1. 15 – ‘so beautiful … world’: RLS to MS, Letters, vol. 5, October 1885.
7 1. 32 – ‘We have had … bad one’: RLS to Thomas Stevenson, Letters, vol. 5, October 1885.
8 1. 12 – ‘It is the mark …’: RLS to Henley, Letters, vol. 5, 1885/ 86).
9 1. 32 – ‘Do for God’s …’: RLS to FS, Letters, vol. 5, October 1885.
10 1. 17 – ‘being pinched …’: RLS to Anne Jenkin, Letters, vol. 5, September 1886.
11 1. 24 – ‘I have remorse …’: RLS to FS, Letters, vol. 5, September 1886.
12 1. 15 – ‘I do not love …’: RLS to Anne Jenkin, Letters, vol. 5, April 1887.
13 1. 13 – ‘if you won’t …’: RLS to MS, Letters, vol. 5, June 1887.
14 1. 17 – ‘I could not …’: FS to MS, Letters, vol. 5, June 1887.
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1 1. 14 – ‘a hardy mariner …’: MS to her sister. [All quotes from MS’s letters are taken from MS, From Saranac to the Marquesas: being letters written to her sister Jane, 1887–8 unless otherwise cited.]
2 1. 33 – ‘In fact … it would be’: RLS and FS, Our Samoan Adventure.
3 1. 23 – ‘But this money …’: RLS and FS, Our Samoan Adventure.
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1 1. 7 – ‘rain or shine’: RLS to Colvin, Letters, vol. 6.
2 1. 29 – ‘My vanity …’: RLS and FS, Our Samoan Adventure.
3 1. 3 – ‘Fanny has not been …’: MS, Letters from Samoa 1891–95, August 1891.
4 1. 20 – ‘robbing …’: RLS and FS, Our Samoan Adventure.
5 1. 1 – ‘something wrong …’: (and all following quotes): Letters, vol. 8, April 1893.
6 1. 23 – ‘pale, penetratin’ …’: RLS to Henry James, Letters, vol. 8, June 1893.
7 1. 3 – ‘I am honest …’: Mackay, The Violent Friend.
8 1. 19 – ‘in despair …’: RLS to MS, Letters, vol. 8, August 1893.
9 1. 30 – ‘You should have seen …’: RLS to MS, Letters, vol. 8, February 1894.
10 1. 12 – ‘salad … tin’: RLS to Colvin, Letters, vol. 8, August 1893.
11 1. 13 – ‘I sometimes feel …’: RLS to Bob, Letters, vol. 8, June 1894.
12 1. 33 – ‘I intend …’: RLS and FS, Our Samoan Adventure.
13 1. 21 – ‘What sort of …’: RLS and FS, Our Samoan Adventure.
14 1. 21 – ‘Go with each …’: Mackay, The Violent Friend.
15 1. 33 – ‘What’s that?’: Mackay, The Violent Friend.
Jennie Lee
Jennie Lee’s papers are collected together in the library of the Open University where they were deposited by Patricia Hollis after she had completed the official biography, Jennie Lee: A Life (1997). I have used these papers extensively and relied on the biography greatly since it contains masses of information gleaned from people close to Jennie who are now dead. There are also two volumes of autobiography: Tomorrow is a New Day (1939) and My Life With Nye (1980).
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1 1. 20 – ‘marriage …’: Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (eds), The Diary of Beatrice Webb.
2 1. 1 – ‘a being … unacquisitive’: Benn Levy, quoted in Jennie Lee (JL), My Life With Nye.
3 1. 6 – ‘She had … stern’: JL, Tomorrow is a New Day.
4 1. 34 – ‘I was not … stubborn’: JL, Tomorrow is a New Day.
5 1. 10 – ‘mother was … could’: JL, Tomorrow is a New Day.
6 1. 25 – ‘why try … size 4 shoes’: ‘J.L. Diaries 1936–8’, Open University (OU) Papers.
7 1. 29 – ‘How is it … differently’: exercise book, OU Papers.
8 1. 25 – ‘bad … temptation’: JL to Suse Saemann (SS), 4 August 1926, OU Papers.
9 1. 34 – ‘I intended …’ – JL to SS (no date [n.d.] – Hollis estimates May 1926).
10 1. 7 – ‘exceedingly handsome …’: JL to SS (n.d.), OU Papers.
11 1. 25 – ‘Thank goodness … occurred’: JL to SS, 21 July 1926, OU Papers.
12 1. 29 – ‘I have been told …’: JL to SS (n.d.), OU Papers.
13 1. 35 – ‘a deep crimson … satin’: JL to SS, 18 January 1926, OU Papers.
14 1. 9 – ‘until I … Westminster’: JL to SS, 29 December 1926, OU Papers.
15 1. 21 – ‘infinitely …’ (and following quotes): JL to SS, 17 June 1927, OU Papers.
16 1. 7 – ‘very clear-headed …’: Frank Wise (FW) to Chas Trevelyan, 13 November 1931, OU Papers.
17 1. 32 – ‘Darling … flirt with’: JL to FW, 10 February 1931, OU Papers.
18 1. 22 – ‘a kind of … rang’ (and following quotes): JL to FW, 8 December 1931, OU Papers.
19 1. 15 – Dorothy Wise, letter to JL, 12 November 1933, OU Papers.
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1 1. 28 – ‘dressed … mood’: JL, My Life With Nye.
2 1. 12 – ‘dragged … powers’: JL, My Life With Nye.
3 1. 19 – ‘He was … no me’: JL, Notes for her biography, 3 February 1967, OU Papers.
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1 1. 9 – ‘his old chauvinist …’: JL, My Life With Nye.
2 1. 20 – ‘shielded …’: JL, Notes for her biography, 3 February 1967, OU Papers.
3 1. 24 – ‘with her black …’: Hollis, Jennie Lee,
4 1. 2 – ‘dragging round …’: JL, Notes for her biography, OU Papers.
5 1. 38 – ‘So much … nature’: JL, Notes for her biography, OU Papers.
6 1. 34 – ‘I look like …’: Thomas Lee (TL) to Rose Lee, Box 10 (n.d.), OU Papers.
7 1. n – ‘at least … behaviour’: JL to TL, Box 10 (n.d.), OU Papers.
8 1. 1 – ‘the most …’: JL, Notes for her biography, OU Papers.
9 1. 8 – ‘the days …’: JL, My Life With Nye.
10 1. 2 – ‘You yellow-livered …’: quoted by John Campbell, Nye Bevan.
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1 1. 21 – ‘it is … strain’: JL, Diary Notes, 1945–50 (n.d.), OU Papers.
2 1. 12 – ‘a few … storms’: JL, My Life With Nye.
3 1. 27 – ‘an appallingly …’: JL, My Life With Nye.
4 1. 16 – ‘is it your real …’: JL, unsent letter, dated 3 June 1957 [partly quoted in JL, My Life With Nye and fully quoted in Hollis, Jennie L
ee].
5 1. 37 – ‘He did not have …’ JL, My Life With Nye.
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1 1. 16 – ‘profoundly … place’: JL to FW, 3 October 1932, OUP.
2 1. 35 – ‘In all the great …’: Hollis, Jennie Lee, p. 233.
3 1. 19 – ‘Don’t know …’: Hollis, Jennie Lee, p. 235.
4 1. 33 – ‘I wander …’: Hollis, Jennie Lee, p. 235.
5 1. 35 – ‘Jennie is … publicity’: Harold Wilson, quoted in Hollis, Jennie Lee, p. 255.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mary Livingstone
Manuscript Material
1. School of Oriental and African Studies [London Missionary Society Collection, Special Series: Africa Odds and Personals, Boxes 2, 3, 5, 11 and Wooden Box].
2. Methodist Archives, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
3. National Library of Scotland – MS 656/10780/10777/10775.
4. National Archives of Zimbabwe – Folios L1: 33–40/41–4.
5. Royal Geographical Society – Livingstone Letters.
Printed Sources
Blaikie, W. G., The Personal Life of David Livingstone (1880).
Chadwick, O., Mackenzie’s Grave (1959).
Chamberlin, D. (ed.), Some Letters from Livingstone 1840–72 (1940).
Devereux, W. C., A Cruise in the Gorgon (1869).
Dickson, M., Beloved Partner: Mary Moffat of Kuruman (1974).
Foskett, R. (ed.), The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr John Kirk 1858–63, 2 vols (1965).
Healey, E., Wives of Fame (1986).
Jeal, T., Livingstone (1973).
Moffat, J. S., The Lives of Robert and Mary Moffat (1885).