KENT, ROCKWELL. "1934" [heading on first page]. Autograph manuscript, unsigned but entirely in Kent's small neat hand, being a daily record of the weather in Greenland from 1 September 1934 to 23 June 1935. 71 pages, written in pencil on rectos only, 4to, on ruled paper. With a typed sheet containing Kent's(?) Centigrade to Fahrenheit conversions, with hand-ruled connecting lines in pencil. One page, 4to, some chipping at edges.

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KENT, ROCKWELL. "1934" [heading on first page]. Autograph manuscript, unsigned but entirely in Kent's small neat hand, being a daily record of the weather in Greenland from 1 September 1934 to 23 June 1935. 71 pages, written in pencil on rectos only, 4to, on ruled paper. With a typed sheet containing Kent's(?) Centigrade to Fahrenheit conversions, with hand-ruled connecting lines in pencil. One page, 4to, some chipping at edges.

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As a means of financing his third and final trip to Greenland, Kent made these meticulous reports for Pan-American Airways. He refers to this in the introduction to Salamina (1935): "...Pan American Airways Corporation saw to it with what looked like tons of paté de foie gras 'with truffles,' and so on, and so on, that I would be well sustained in the doing of their field work, and with six dozen quarts of emasculated fruit juice that I'd keep my head about it" (p.xi).

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