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MARSHALL, Eric (1879-1963). 'Personal Diary. British Antarctic Expedition. 1907 - 1909', a typed transcript, undated (?1920s), with occasional manuscript corrections, 'Epilogue' signed by Marshall and notes on 'Shackleton's Record', title and 65 pages, 4to, bound with four typed letters signed by Marshall to Eric Gibbs, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1 March 1957 - 23 April 1958, and a related transcription; in a 'binder file', card covers. Provenance: stamps of Monkton Combe school library on title.
'Jan 9th [1909] ... Marched hard till 9 am when we hoisted Queens flag in D.R. Lat 88 23'S, the highest, coldest, bleakest & windiest plateau in the world': the diary of one of Shackleton's companions at his Furthest South. Marshall's letters of 50 years later refer to the dispatch of the typescript diary, and to its previous loan to his old school, and offer some brief and rather scathing remarks about former comrades: 'Wild died as a barman in Johannesburg ... Aeneas Mackintosh, whose eye I extracted in Jan /08, was a liability ... S[hackleton] was a rogue and a mountebank, and covered with foreign decorations for his antarctic failures ... Scott was a great gentleman, but riddled with service limitations'. Marshall's original diaries are at SPRI, MS 206.
'Jan 9th [1909] ... Marched hard till 9 am when we hoisted Queens flag in D.R. Lat 88 23'S, the highest, coldest, bleakest & windiest plateau in the world': the diary of one of Shackleton's companions at his Furthest South. Marshall's letters of 50 years later refer to the dispatch of the typescript diary, and to its previous loan to his old school, and offer some brief and rather scathing remarks about former comrades: 'Wild died as a barman in Johannesburg ... Aeneas Mackintosh, whose eye I extracted in Jan /08, was a liability ... S[hackleton] was a rogue and a mountebank, and covered with foreign decorations for his antarctic failures ... Scott was a great gentleman, but riddled with service limitations'. Marshall's original diaries are at SPRI, MS 206.
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