Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Date:
1913
Reference:
MS.7486/95-99
Part of:
Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Cutting from a French periodical, showing Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, and mentioning his death, and also containing a note on a monument in Copenhagen to those who died on the expedition to North-East Greenland led by Ludvig Mylius Erichsen (1872-1907), 1913 (no.95); 2 cuttings reproducing photographs by Herbert Ponting published in Scott's Last Expedition, from The Sphere and the Illustrated London News, 1913 (nos.96-97); offprint of review, in Science, of Griffith Taylor's With Scott: the silver lining, by Adolphus Greely (1844-1935), leader of the 1881-1884 U.S. expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, with autograph endorsement by Greely presenting it to Dr. Townsend W. Thorndike, 1916 (no.98); cover of Leslie's Magazine, with a picture of Scott, 1913 (no.99).

Publication/Creation

1913

Physical description

5 items

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

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