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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)
Letter signed to Dr Alexander Macklin, Marlborough Club, London, 21 June 1917, on paper with printed heading of 'The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition', one page, 4to.
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Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Shackleton on the effects of the Great War on the survivors of the Endurance expedition: 'I have heard from Mick, seen Wild, also Wordie, and heard from Hussey. Poor old McCarthy went down in a torpedoed ship the other day'; Shackleton refers to his prospective appointment in Russia, and to a hoped-for reunion of expedition members after the war; 'You say that the tanks are tame after the Antarctic. I can quite understand that for our trouble was always at hand there'; the letter closes with 'the warmest feelings of friendship and gratitude ... you never failed me throughout the expedition'.
The letter is addressed to Macklin as a lieutenant on active service in 'C' Battalion, Heavy Branch Machine Gun Co., B.E.F., France. Shackleton's first posting in fact was to South America, to assist in spreading propaganda; his posting in charge of winter equipment for the North Russian expedition did not take place until August 1918. Shackleton's first question on reaching Stromness in South Georgia after the Boat Journey had been 'Tell me, when was the war over?'.
Letter signed to Dr Alexander Macklin, Marlborough Club, London, 21 June 1917, on paper with printed heading of 'The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition', one page, 4to.
PROVENANCE:
Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Shackleton on the effects of the Great War on the survivors of the Endurance expedition: 'I have heard from Mick, seen Wild, also Wordie, and heard from Hussey. Poor old McCarthy went down in a torpedoed ship the other day'; Shackleton refers to his prospective appointment in Russia, and to a hoped-for reunion of expedition members after the war; 'You say that the tanks are tame after the Antarctic. I can quite understand that for our trouble was always at hand there'; the letter closes with 'the warmest feelings of friendship and gratitude ... you never failed me throughout the expedition'.
The letter is addressed to Macklin as a lieutenant on active service in 'C' Battalion, Heavy Branch Machine Gun Co., B.E.F., France. Shackleton's first posting in fact was to South America, to assist in spreading propaganda; his posting in charge of winter equipment for the North Russian expedition did not take place until August 1918. Shackleton's first question on reaching Stromness in South Georgia after the Boat Journey had been 'Tell me, when was the war over?'.
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