Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880-1971), leader of expedition to North-East Greenland to recover bodies and records from the expedition of Ludvig Mylius Erichsen (1872-1907)
- Date:
- 1911-1912
- Reference:
- MS.7486/59-64
- Part of:
- Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Cutting surmising that Mikkelsen may be alive, 1911 (no.59); cuttings, from the Boston Herald and the Outlook announcing Mikkelsen's rescue, 1912 (nos.60-61); cuttings of Mikkelsen's account of his experiences, "Lost in the Arctic" from Pearson's Magazine, c.1912 (no.62) and "Perdus dans l'Arctique" from L'Illustration, 1912 (no.63), and a summary of Mikkelsen's account under the title "Terrible Hardships of the Arctic Explorer" from Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, 1913 (no.64).
Publication/Creation
1911-1912
Physical description
6 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