Item Details

Author(s) & contributor(s): Jacob Wainwright

Date(s): 4 May 1873

Place(s) of creation: Chitambo's village

Form & transmission history: Original inscription in author’s hand.

Object description: Photograph of tree trunk with rectangular section removed; faded inscription on inner bark in one hand.

Repository: Wellcome Library (London, United Kingdom)

Shelfmark / Identifier: no. 561464i

Digital edition & date: One More Voice, 2020

Critical editing & encoding: Adrian S. Wisnicki

Cite this digital edition (MLA): Wainwright, Jacob. “Inscription on the Tree at the Foot of which David Livingstone's Heart was Buried” (4 May 1873). Adrian S. Wisnicki, ed. One More Voice, site launch edition, 2020, https://onemorevoice.org/html/transcriptions/liv_020014_TEI.html.

Rights: Critically-edited text copyright One More Voice. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Explore complete/original item: Wellcome Library

Accessibility: One More Voice digital facsimiles approximate the textual, structural, and material features of original documents. However, because such features may reduce accessibility, each facsimile allows users to toggle such features on and off as needed.

Production note: The editors produced this edition through a rigorous process that involved transcribing and encoding the text directly from images of the original document using the One More Voice coding guidelines (PDF). Users, however, are encouraged to consult the original document if possible.