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BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1913
Signatures of Robert Falcon SCOTT, Edward A. WILSON, E.R.G.R. Evans and George Simpson, together with those of John and Mary Chappell, Lord and Lady Mayor of Cardiff, and two others, Terra Nova at Cardiff, 14 June 1910 (the date in Scott's hand), one page, 8vo, on paper with printed heading of Mansion House, Cardiff (pin holes).
Evans took the Terra Nova into Cardiff Roads on the afternoon of 9 June 1910, and she moored in the docks the following day, where she was generously coaled courtesy of the Lord Mayor and other local donors. Scott and Evans and their wives were entertained by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House on Sunday with social events every evening until their departure for the South on Wednesday. The civic authorities threw a grand reception for the Expeditionary party in the City Hall on Tuesday 14 June, on the eve of their departure, at which Scott promised the expedition would make Cardiff their first port-of-call on their return.
Signatures of Robert Falcon SCOTT, Edward A. WILSON, E.R.G.R. Evans and George Simpson, together with those of John and Mary Chappell, Lord and Lady Mayor of Cardiff, and two others, Terra Nova at Cardiff, 14 June 1910 (the date in Scott's hand), one page, 8vo, on paper with printed heading of Mansion House, Cardiff (pin holes).
Evans took the Terra Nova into Cardiff Roads on the afternoon of 9 June 1910, and she moored in the docks the following day, where she was generously coaled courtesy of the Lord Mayor and other local donors. Scott and Evans and their wives were entertained by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House on Sunday with social events every evening until their departure for the South on Wednesday. The civic authorities threw a grand reception for the Expeditionary party in the City Hall on Tuesday 14 June, on the eve of their departure, at which Scott promised the expedition would make Cardiff their first port-of-call on their return.