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LAWRENCE EDWARD GRACE OATES (1880-1912).
Royal Geographical Society. A 4pp. printed letter with manuscript insertions, dated 7th May 1912, 4to. (25.3 x 20.3cm.), addressed to 'Capt. L. E. G. Oates', noting that at the last meeting of the council of the Society on the 6th May, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, having been proposed by Sir John Kirk, who was seconded by Dr. J. S. Keltie. With a marginal manuscript note by Caroline Oates 'Sent cheque 45 on 7 June 1912. Thus Laurie is Fellow for life. C.A.O'. Mounted on card.
The awful irony of this document, and of Mrs Oates' note in particular becomes apparent when it is remembered that Oates had died two months before the date of his election, at the beginning of March 1912. Mrs. Oates and the world did not learn of her son's fate until early in 1913.
[With:]
Royal Humane Society. A 1p. manuscript and printed address on vellum, dated 11 February 1913, 33.7 x 24cm., presented to the widow of Edgar Evans, recording the unanimous resolution of the Annual General Court of the Humane Society to 'record its deepest sympathy and condolence with the relatives of... [Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers] and Seaman (Petty Officer) Edgar Evans R.N. who so nobly perished on the return journey after reaching the South Pole, January 1912 during which the greatest heroism and self sacrifice to their sense of duty was displayed'; together with the original black cloth presentation folder, and a covering letter from the Secretary of the Society to Mrs. Edgar Evans, dated 28 March 1913. (4)
Royal Geographical Society. A 4pp. printed letter with manuscript insertions, dated 7th May 1912, 4to. (25.3 x 20.3cm.), addressed to 'Capt. L. E. G. Oates', noting that at the last meeting of the council of the Society on the 6th May, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, having been proposed by Sir John Kirk, who was seconded by Dr. J. S. Keltie. With a marginal manuscript note by Caroline Oates 'Sent cheque 45 on 7 June 1912. Thus Laurie is Fellow for life. C.A.O'. Mounted on card.
The awful irony of this document, and of Mrs Oates' note in particular becomes apparent when it is remembered that Oates had died two months before the date of his election, at the beginning of March 1912. Mrs. Oates and the world did not learn of her son's fate until early in 1913.
[With:]
Royal Humane Society. A 1p. manuscript and printed address on vellum, dated 11 February 1913, 33.7 x 24cm., presented to the widow of Edgar Evans, recording the unanimous resolution of the Annual General Court of the Humane Society to 'record its deepest sympathy and condolence with the relatives of... [Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers] and Seaman (Petty Officer) Edgar Evans R.N. who so nobly perished on the return journey after reaching the South Pole, January 1912 during which the greatest heroism and self sacrifice to their sense of duty was displayed'; together with the original black cloth presentation folder, and a covering letter from the Secretary of the Society to Mrs. Edgar Evans, dated 28 March 1913. (4)