Franklin, Sir John, (1786-1847), Arctic explorer

Correspondence formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence relating to Sir John Franklin, his first wife the poetess Eleanor Franklin née Porden (1797?-1825) and his second wife Jane, Lady Franklin, née Griffin (1792-1875), organiser of attempts to locate the disappeared final Franklin expedition.

1811-1857

21 items

Purchased from: Desgranges, Paris, June 1930 (acc.67390) and September 1932 (acc.65659); R. Atkinson, London, August 1930 (acc.63105); Stevens, London, September 1930 (acc.56559), January 1931 (acc.68115), March 1931 (acc.68135) and November 1931 (acc.68271); Sotheby's, London, April 1931 (acc.67516); Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67620) and July 1932 (acc.67690); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Provenance details of nos.17 and 19 (acc.67430) not recorded; no accession details noted for nos. 11-13 and 21.

At Wellcome Collection: Other letters, which relate to Franklin's period as Governor of Tasmania, were formerly held with this material but extracted in 1989, as a result of the National Library of Australia's Australian Joint Copying Project: these letters are now catalogued as MS.7831.

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