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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
Autograph letter signed ('Daddy') to his son, Edward ('My darling Eddy'), ‘Syren, North Russia Expeditionary Force’ [Murmansk], 26 October 1918, describing his surroundings and reflecting that three years ago the Endurance was ice-locked at the other end of the world, 4 pages, 8vo, bifolium; with a studio portrait photograph of Ernest Shackleton, signed and inscribed (lower left, ‘To Edward from Daddy Oct 9th 1918') with the stamp of the photographer's studio ‘F. A. Swaine’ on the mount, 198 x 152 mm; and with a ‘Syren; N.R.E.F.’ Christmas card, 1918, inscribed in pencil ‘To Darling Eddie from Daddy’, 165 x 101mm.
Writing to his seven-year-old son while stationed at Murmansk, charged with overseeing the North Russian Expeditionary Force’s equipment for their winter campaign, Shackleton describes the native Laplanders who drive their reindeer harnessed to sledges and the Northern Lights, whose glow ‘equals the moon’. Shackleton would resign his commission in February 1919 and return to business projects.
Autograph letter signed ('Daddy') to his son, Edward ('My darling Eddy'), ‘Syren, North Russia Expeditionary Force’ [Murmansk], 26 October 1918, describing his surroundings and reflecting that three years ago the Endurance was ice-locked at the other end of the world, 4 pages, 8vo, bifolium; with a studio portrait photograph of Ernest Shackleton, signed and inscribed (lower left, ‘To Edward from Daddy Oct 9th 1918') with the stamp of the photographer's studio ‘F. A. Swaine’ on the mount, 198 x 152 mm; and with a ‘Syren; N.R.E.F.’ Christmas card, 1918, inscribed in pencil ‘To Darling Eddie from Daddy’, 165 x 101mm.
Writing to his seven-year-old son while stationed at Murmansk, charged with overseeing the North Russian Expeditionary Force’s equipment for their winter campaign, Shackleton describes the native Laplanders who drive their reindeer harnessed to sledges and the Northern Lights, whose glow ‘equals the moon’. Shackleton would resign his commission in February 1919 and return to business projects.