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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
Autograph letter signed ('E.H. Shackleton') to Cyril Longhurst, secretary to the British National Antarctic Expedition, Dundee, 2 June 1901, 2 pages, 8vo, bifolium, on paper with printed heading of Queen's Hotel, Dundee.
COMPLAINING AT BEING STUCK IN DUNDEE: 'Is it not beastly rot stuck up in this hole with all my heart soul and body crying out for dear familiar Lunnon [London]. My first appearance in Scotland and I trust my last. I went into a shop last night and asked for a London morning paper, the old dame glared at me a minute the[n] howled out "De ye ken ye are in Dundee?". I said, I kenned it weel alack! so she said: "Mon it is mair than a day's journey frae London", in a tone which settled the matter'.
Shackleton was presumably in Dundee for the impending departure of the Discovery, which set off for London shortly afterwards. His antipathy for Scotland was not to last: on his return from the Discovery expedition he took a post first as secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and later at the Parkhead engineering works in Glasgow: in between he had even stood as Liberal Unionist Candidate for parliament in Dundee itself in 1906. The connection with Dundee continued when one of its foremost citizens, Sir James Caird, was the main sponsor of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Autograph letter signed ('E.H. Shackleton') to Cyril Longhurst, secretary to the British National Antarctic Expedition, Dundee, 2 June 1901, 2 pages, 8vo, bifolium, on paper with printed heading of Queen's Hotel, Dundee.
COMPLAINING AT BEING STUCK IN DUNDEE: 'Is it not beastly rot stuck up in this hole with all my heart soul and body crying out for dear familiar Lunnon [London]. My first appearance in Scotland and I trust my last. I went into a shop last night and asked for a London morning paper, the old dame glared at me a minute the[n] howled out "De ye ken ye are in Dundee?". I said, I kenned it weel alack! so she said: "Mon it is mair than a day's journey frae London", in a tone which settled the matter'.
Shackleton was presumably in Dundee for the impending departure of the Discovery, which set off for London shortly afterwards. His antipathy for Scotland was not to last: on his return from the Discovery expedition he took a post first as secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and later at the Parkhead engineering works in Glasgow: in between he had even stood as Liberal Unionist Candidate for parliament in Dundee itself in 1906. The connection with Dundee continued when one of its foremost citizens, Sir James Caird, was the main sponsor of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
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