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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
Typed letter signed to Cyril Longhurst, 14 South Learmouth Gardens, Edinburgh, 16 February 1907, 1½ pages, 4to (staple tear to upper left corner of p.2); [and] Sir Clements MARKHAM. Two autograph letters signed to Cyril Longhurst, Palma (Mallorca), 16 February and 17 March 1907, and an autograph document signed as President of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1 February 1904, together 7 pages, 8vo, on bifolia.
'I HOPE ... THAT [SHACKLETON] HAS NOT BEEN PLAYING A LOW DOWN OR DOUBLE GAME'. Shackleton writes to announce the confirmation of his planned British Antarctic Expedition: 'Sufficient funds have been guaranteed to make the Southern Expedition ... I had given up all hope of getting an Expedition since two years ago, but within the last month I again made a strenuous effort, because of the other nations making renewed plans for a South Polar attack', referring to the rival plans of [Michael] Barne, with the hopes that he might be persuaded to join Shackleton to command the Magnetic Pole Journey, 'I am afraid we cannot get Wilson, though he would dearly like to come, because he is tied down to the Grouse Commission'.
Writing on the same day, Sir Clements Markham reacts sceptically to the same news: 'That Shackleton announcement is startling. The scheme is very much what he propounded to me long ago. I doubt whether he has the stamina for it. I shall be very anxious to learn whether he has been in frank communication with Scott and Barne, and that he has not been playing a low down or double game. I do not think he would, but I have not heard from Scott'. The following month, he writes with further news: 'I had a letter ... from Capn Scott very much annoyed at Shackleton's disloyalty and reticence, and saying that he had written to Shackleton. Later I got a second letter from Shackleton telling me that, on hearing from Scott, he had given up the McMurdo Sound route to him, and that he had had no idea that Scott thought of going again', also professing his ignorance of the state of Scott's funding, and passing on news that Barne is working for Scott's expedition. In the autograph document, Sir Clements gives a formal reference for Longhurst's work as secretary of the National Antarctic Expedition. (4)
Typed letter signed to Cyril Longhurst, 14 South Learmouth Gardens, Edinburgh, 16 February 1907, 1½ pages, 4to (staple tear to upper left corner of p.2); [and] Sir Clements MARKHAM. Two autograph letters signed to Cyril Longhurst, Palma (Mallorca), 16 February and 17 March 1907, and an autograph document signed as President of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1 February 1904, together 7 pages, 8vo, on bifolia.
'I HOPE ... THAT [SHACKLETON] HAS NOT BEEN PLAYING A LOW DOWN OR DOUBLE GAME'. Shackleton writes to announce the confirmation of his planned British Antarctic Expedition: 'Sufficient funds have been guaranteed to make the Southern Expedition ... I had given up all hope of getting an Expedition since two years ago, but within the last month I again made a strenuous effort, because of the other nations making renewed plans for a South Polar attack', referring to the rival plans of [Michael] Barne, with the hopes that he might be persuaded to join Shackleton to command the Magnetic Pole Journey, 'I am afraid we cannot get Wilson, though he would dearly like to come, because he is tied down to the Grouse Commission'.
Writing on the same day, Sir Clements Markham reacts sceptically to the same news: 'That Shackleton announcement is startling. The scheme is very much what he propounded to me long ago. I doubt whether he has the stamina for it. I shall be very anxious to learn whether he has been in frank communication with Scott and Barne, and that he has not been playing a low down or double game. I do not think he would, but I have not heard from Scott'. The following month, he writes with further news: 'I had a letter ... from Capn Scott very much annoyed at Shackleton's disloyalty and reticence, and saying that he had written to Shackleton. Later I got a second letter from Shackleton telling me that, on hearing from Scott, he had given up the McMurdo Sound route to him, and that he had had no idea that Scott thought of going again', also professing his ignorance of the state of Scott's funding, and passing on news that Barne is working for Scott's expedition. In the autograph document, Sir Clements gives a formal reference for Longhurst's work as secretary of the National Antarctic Expedition. (4)
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