Lot 294
Polar Exploration - Wright, Sir Charles Seymour
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
Description
Autograph letter signed to Mrs McLennan, dated August 2 1913, addressed Caius College, Cambridge, regarding a requested list of expedition members, 8vo, single leaf, British Antarctic Expedition Terra Nova headed paper, postmarked "Brit. Antarctic Expd", two New Zealand penny stamps
Footnote
Note: Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KCB, OBE, MC, MA, was accepted onto Robert Falcon Scott's British Antarctic Expedition "Terra Nova", 1910 - 1913, as a physicist, and along with five other scientists spent the first winter at Cape Evans studying glacier ice, snow and sea ice. Magnetism, gravity and aurora were added to these studies the subsequent winter. Scott appointed Wright to be a member of the first supporting party on the polar journey with Edward Leicester Atkinson, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Patrick Keohane. Wright was later part of the search party of eight men and seven mules who searched for Scott and the pole party. On 11 November 1912 he discovered the party's tent on the Ross Ice Shelf. In 1913 Wright returned to Cambridge to lecture in cartography and surveying. He did not revist the Antarctic until 1964-65. (