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LAWRENCE EDWARD GRACE OATES (1880-1912)
A group of seven letters of condolence to Mrs. Oates, Feb. 12th-18th 1913, from various family friends, e.g. "His last words to his Comrades, was [sic.], I think, about the finest thing ever said & is never likely to be lost to the English speaking races, they must live in all hearts"; "Let me write a line of warm sympathy with you in the loss of your gallant son, sympathy in the sorrow & sympathy in the honour. Such lives & deaths give higher ideals & raise our whole standard of life"; [Together with:] a collection of printed and manuscript ephemera relating to Oates, [c.1910-1932], including two letters from Holland & Holland to Mrs.Oates concerning her son's guns; 4 letters from S.H.Edwards, taxidermist, to Mrs.Oates, concerning some animals that her son had left to be stuffed. Provenance: Caroline Oates; Violet Oates.
News of the fate of Scott and the Polar party reached the world on February 10th 1913, when the Terra Nova reached Oamaru in New Zealand.
A group of seven letters of condolence to Mrs. Oates, Feb. 12th-18th 1913, from various family friends, e.g. "His last words to his Comrades, was [sic.], I think, about the finest thing ever said & is never likely to be lost to the English speaking races, they must live in all hearts"; "Let me write a line of warm sympathy with you in the loss of your gallant son, sympathy in the sorrow & sympathy in the honour. Such lives & deaths give higher ideals & raise our whole standard of life"; [Together with:] a collection of printed and manuscript ephemera relating to Oates, [c.1910-1932], including two letters from Holland & Holland to Mrs.Oates concerning her son's guns; 4 letters from S.H.Edwards, taxidermist, to Mrs.Oates, concerning some animals that her son had left to be stuffed. Provenance: Caroline Oates; Violet Oates.
News of the fate of Scott and the Polar party reached the world on February 10th 1913, when the Terra Nova reached Oamaru in New Zealand.