Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967)
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Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967)
Correspondence with Alfred Lansing (author of Endurance (1959)) and others, comprising carbon copies of letters and typed and autograph drafts by Macklin, including a sketch-map of the approach to Elephant Island (18), and letters to Macklin by Lansing (18) and others (5), 13 September 1957 - 26 June 1961, altogether approximately 81 pages, various sizes. Together with: Alfred Lansing. Endurance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959, 8°. Original cloth. First edition. Presentation inscription; letter from author tipped in.
PROVENANCE:
Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Macklin's clarifications and expansions on the Endurance expedition. In reply to Lansing's fulsome letters Macklin supplies information about conditions after the sinking of the Endurance, and especially on the expedition's dogs, the firearms and the animosity between the men; a worried letter of June 1961 enquires as to the fate of the diaries and documents he has lent Lansing.
Correspondence with Alfred Lansing (author of Endurance (1959)) and others, comprising carbon copies of letters and typed and autograph drafts by Macklin, including a sketch-map of the approach to Elephant Island (18), and letters to Macklin by Lansing (18) and others (5), 13 September 1957 - 26 June 1961, altogether approximately 81 pages, various sizes. Together with: Alfred Lansing. Endurance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959, 8°. Original cloth. First edition. Presentation inscription; letter from author tipped in.
PROVENANCE:
Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889-1967), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Macklin's clarifications and expansions on the Endurance expedition. In reply to Lansing's fulsome letters Macklin supplies information about conditions after the sinking of the Endurance, and especially on the expedition's dogs, the firearms and the animosity between the men; a worried letter of June 1961 enquires as to the fate of the diaries and documents he has lent Lansing.
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