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Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967)
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Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967)
A collection of autograph manuscripts and typescripts about the Endurance expedition, n.d. [c.1917-1957], comprising 6 extended accounts, including his 'Antarctic Diary 1914-15' (a narrative of the first part of the Endurance expedition, but composed later), and substantial drafts and fragments of an autobiography, together with 8 lectures and articles and four transcriptions, altogether more than 500 pages, various sizes, manuscript, and approximately 78 pages, typescript.
PROVENANCE:
Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967), and thence by descent to the present owners.
A voluminous collection of drafts and notes, gathering forty years of recollection of the Endurance expedition: the earliest of the manuscripts - probably the drafts for the 'Antarctic Diary 1914-15' - date from soon after the end of the expedition; the latest, a number of talks prompted by the departure of the Fuchs Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, date from c.1957. The manuscripts are a rich mine of incident and reflection, comprising surveys on particular angles - discipline and health, scurvy, the dogs - appreciation of character - of Shackleton ('the most remarkable [man], and the greatest "personality"' of Macklin's acquaintance), and also Frank Wild ('the perfect second-in-command') and Frank Worsley in the boat journeys - as well as narratives of particular incidents - bringing the last boat in to Ocean Camp, an exploit which left the sledge dogs 'too tired to eat', or the boat journey to Elephant Island - and of the expedition as a whole, in addition to the broader context of Macklin's life. Macklin was one of the longest-lived of the Endurance members, as well as perhaps the most open to biographers; his accounts are a cornerstone of our understanding of the expedition.
A collection of autograph manuscripts and typescripts about the Endurance expedition, n.d. [c.1917-1957], comprising 6 extended accounts, including his 'Antarctic Diary 1914-15' (a narrative of the first part of the Endurance expedition, but composed later), and substantial drafts and fragments of an autobiography, together with 8 lectures and articles and four transcriptions, altogether more than 500 pages, various sizes, manuscript, and approximately 78 pages, typescript.
PROVENANCE:
Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967), and thence by descent to the present owners.
A voluminous collection of drafts and notes, gathering forty years of recollection of the Endurance expedition: the earliest of the manuscripts - probably the drafts for the 'Antarctic Diary 1914-15' - date from soon after the end of the expedition; the latest, a number of talks prompted by the departure of the Fuchs Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, date from c.1957. The manuscripts are a rich mine of incident and reflection, comprising surveys on particular angles - discipline and health, scurvy, the dogs - appreciation of character - of Shackleton ('the most remarkable [man], and the greatest "personality"' of Macklin's acquaintance), and also Frank Wild ('the perfect second-in-command') and Frank Worsley in the boat journeys - as well as narratives of particular incidents - bringing the last boat in to Ocean Camp, an exploit which left the sledge dogs 'too tired to eat', or the boat journey to Elephant Island - and of the expedition as a whole, in addition to the broader context of Macklin's life. Macklin was one of the longest-lived of the Endurance members, as well as perhaps the most open to biographers; his accounts are a cornerstone of our understanding of the expedition.
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