Correspondence, 18--.

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Correspondence, 18--.

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Baker's letter to Mr. [Sanders or Landers] thanks him for a gift of maps and gives details of his future travel plans.

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Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893

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Samuel White Baker was born in London and educated in England and Germany. His father, a merchant with the West India Company, wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, but young Samuel chose instead the life of an adventurer. He founded an immigrant colony in Ceylon, published several books on hunting, supervised the construction of a railway connecting the Danube with the Black Sea, and bought a Hungarian slave girl in Bulgaria (whom he rechristened "Florence" and eventually married). She acc...