Relics of Stanley's journeys to be sold

The Independent - London | August 2, 2002| | Copyright

HIS NAME is indelibly linked with the best-remembered catchphrase in the history of British exploration. "Dr Livingstone I presume?" inquired Sir Henry Morton Stanley after at last finding the missionary-explorer during his attempt to trace the source of the Nile.

Yesterday, 98 years after Stanley's death, a unique collection of personal relics relating to the former workhouse boy who became one of Britain's great African explorers surfaced in London, having been found in an attic.

Passed down by generations of his family, the collection - expected to fetch about pounds 800,000 at auction at ...

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