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EDMUND HILLARY (b.1919); & UMBERTO NOBILE (1885-1978)
One-page typed letter, signed 'E. P. Hillary', from 278a Remuera Road, Auckland, 25 March 1958, 4°, to the Editorial Director of Frederick Muller Ltd., thanking him for his congratulations, saying that 'All members of the Expedition are under contract to the organisers, so at present only the official book can be produced' (staple holes top left corner, creased on folds); with another one-page typed letter, signed 'E. P. Hillary', 19 May 1960, 4°, to Mr Reynolds of Frederick Muller Ltd., regarding a publishing contract (creased on folds).
Three one-page typed letters, signed 'Umberto Nobile', from Rome, 10 September 1960 to 3 January 1961, 4°, to various editors at Frederick Muller Ltd., regarding his book My Polar Flights, including comments on the proofs, mentioning Lincoln Ellsworth's book in which he 'attributes to me the curious suggestion of letting the crew make a jump for land and asserts that he and Amundsen sustained...the opposite view', and that the accurate account was published in his 1928 book on the Norge expedition. In the last letter he is concerned that his dispute with Amundsen may cause difficulties in finding a Norwegian publisher and suggests that an alternative preface be written praising the explorer and regretting their past quarrels (creased on folds), with another fragment of a typed letter with signature.
Sir Edmund Hillary is responding to congratulations at being the first to reach the South Pole overland since Scott and Amundsen. He reached the pole with a New Zealand Expeditionary party on 3rd January 1958.
Umberto Nobile, an aeronautical engineer, flew acoss the North Pole in the Norge with Amundsen and Ellsworth in 1926. In 1928, his polar airship Italia crashed under bizarre circumstances when returning from the North Pole and Nobile, a disgraced survivor, was accused of cowardice and desertion.
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One-page typed letter, signed 'E. P. Hillary', from 278a Remuera Road, Auckland, 25 March 1958, 4°, to the Editorial Director of Frederick Muller Ltd., thanking him for his congratulations, saying that 'All members of the Expedition are under contract to the organisers, so at present only the official book can be produced' (staple holes top left corner, creased on folds); with another one-page typed letter, signed 'E. P. Hillary', 19 May 1960, 4°, to Mr Reynolds of Frederick Muller Ltd., regarding a publishing contract (creased on folds).
Three one-page typed letters, signed 'Umberto Nobile', from Rome, 10 September 1960 to 3 January 1961, 4°, to various editors at Frederick Muller Ltd., regarding his book My Polar Flights, including comments on the proofs, mentioning Lincoln Ellsworth's book in which he 'attributes to me the curious suggestion of letting the crew make a jump for land and asserts that he and Amundsen sustained...the opposite view', and that the accurate account was published in his 1928 book on the Norge expedition. In the last letter he is concerned that his dispute with Amundsen may cause difficulties in finding a Norwegian publisher and suggests that an alternative preface be written praising the explorer and regretting their past quarrels (creased on folds), with another fragment of a typed letter with signature.
Sir Edmund Hillary is responding to congratulations at being the first to reach the South Pole overland since Scott and Amundsen. He reached the pole with a New Zealand Expeditionary party on 3rd January 1958.
Umberto Nobile, an aeronautical engineer, flew acoss the North Pole in the Norge with Amundsen and Ellsworth in 1926. In 1928, his polar airship Italia crashed under bizarre circumstances when returning from the North Pole and Nobile, a disgraced survivor, was accused of cowardice and desertion.
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