accompany him. In a letter
to her we have some pleasant notes of his Dublin visit:

"_Dublin, 29th August_, 1857.--I am very sorry now that I did
not bring you with me, for all inquired after you, and
father's book is better known here than anywhere else I have
been. But it could scarcely have been otherwise. I think the
visit to Dublin will be beneficial to our cause, which, I
think, is the cause of Christ in Africa. Lord Radstock is
much interested in it, and seems willing and anxious to
promote it. He was converted out at the Crimea, whither he
had gone as an amateur. His lady is a beautiful woman, and I
think, what is far better, a good, pious one. The
Archbishop's daughters asked me if they could be of any use
in sending out needles, thread, etc., to your school. I, of
course, said Yes. His daughters are devotedly missionary, and
work hard in ragged schools, etc. One of them nearly remained
in Jerusalem as a missionary, and is the same in spirit here.
It is well to be servants of Christ everywhere, at home or
abroad, wherever He may send us or take us.... I hope I may
be enabled to say a word for Him on Monday. There is to be a
grand dinner and soiree at the Lord-Lieutenant's on Monday,
and I have got an invitation in my pocket, but will have to
meet Admiral Trotter on Tuesday. I go off as soon as my
lecture is over.... Sir Duncan Macgregor is the author of
_The Burning of the Kent East Indiaman_. His son, the only
infant saved, is now a devoted Christian, a barrister[52]."

[Footnote 52: Dr. Livingstone always liked that style of earnest
Christianity which he notices in this letter. In November of the same
year, after he had resigned his connection with the London Missionary
Society, and was preparing to return to Africa as H.M. Consul and head
of the Zambesi Expedition, he writes thus to his friend Mr. James Young:
"I read the life of Hedley Vicars for the first time through, when down
at Rugby. It is really excellent, and makes me ashamed of the coldness
of my services in comparison. That was his sister you saw me walking
with in Dublin at the Gardens (Lady Rayleigh). If you have not read it,
the sooner you dip into it the better. You will thank me for it."]

In September we find him in Manchester, where the Chamber of Commerce
gave him a hearty welcome, and entered cordially into his schem