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Sir John Franklin (1786-1847)
Autograph letter signed to Sir John Richardson, Admiralty, 9 January 1836, 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf (seal tear, slight staining from wax, remnant of guards).
An invitation to his Arctic right-hand man to a reunion of members of the 1825-7 voyage: 'The idea has occurred to me and to my wife that it would be a delightful meeting if the members of the last voyage were to dine together on Monday next - and go to the Geographical Society together...I have secured Kendall & his wife [E.N. Kendall, midshipman in 1825-7] - [Sir George] Back I expect to say is engaged...I should also be delighted to have the worthy John Hepburn [seaman on Franklin's overland expedition of 1819-1821] with us on that day - but I don't imagine he could be brought to stand fire'.
Mid-way through the long interval between his second and last Arctic expeditions, Franklin was to be appointed later in 1836 to the lieutenant-governorship of Van Diemen's Land. The recipient, Dr (later Sir John) Richardson, was Franklin's lieutenant on his two earliest expeditions, and was chosen in 1847 at the age of sixty to command the earliest of the search expeditions for Franklin's fatal last voyage.
Autograph letter signed to Sir John Richardson, Admiralty, 9 January 1836, 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf (seal tear, slight staining from wax, remnant of guards).
An invitation to his Arctic right-hand man to a reunion of members of the 1825-7 voyage: 'The idea has occurred to me and to my wife that it would be a delightful meeting if the members of the last voyage were to dine together on Monday next - and go to the Geographical Society together...I have secured Kendall & his wife [E.N. Kendall, midshipman in 1825-7] - [Sir George] Back I expect to say is engaged...I should also be delighted to have the worthy John Hepburn [seaman on Franklin's overland expedition of 1819-1821] with us on that day - but I don't imagine he could be brought to stand fire'.
Mid-way through the long interval between his second and last Arctic expeditions, Franklin was to be appointed later in 1836 to the lieutenant-governorship of Van Diemen's Land. The recipient, Dr (later Sir John) Richardson, was Franklin's lieutenant on his two earliest expeditions, and was chosen in 1847 at the age of sixty to command the earliest of the search expeditions for Franklin's fatal last voyage.