SHACKLETON (Sir Ernest Henry, 1874-1922, British Antarctic Explorer)

Fine typed letter signed to Mr Macdona, concerning arrangements, presumably for a lecture or talk, "I shall be very pleased to stay with you if it does not put you out, as I must leave by the first train in the morning ... perhaps it would be better for me to stay at a hotel close to the station. I will find my own way from Worcester to West Kirby ...", 1 side 4to., 9 Regent Street, London SW, headed paper, telegraphic address "Antexpedi, London", 5th November

Shackleton had returned from his First Antarctic Expedition in 1909. Although he hadn't achieved the Pole, his expedition was celebrated as the first to climb Mount Erebus, and set the record of having travelled the Farthest South. In this interim period, Scott on his second Expedition in the Terra Nova, was known to have failed to achieve the Pole, with news of Amundsen's triumph in the Spring of 1912. Another German Expedition had commenced in May 1911, but it was not known to have failed until December 1912. Shackleton filled this time will Talks and Lectures, and some unsatisfactory money making enterprises. He was formulating plans, and organising sponsorship for what was to be his Imperial Transantarctic Expedition, of 1914-17.

Item Date:  1912

Stock No:  37803     

                


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