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BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-1914 -- RAYMOND EDWARD PRIESTLEY (1886-1974)
Autograph letter signed ('Ray') to his wife Edith ('Dear Edie'), Camp at Cape Royds, 19 January 1911, a hurried note 'to send you a stamp with every good wish for the season & next'; she will learn his news from his diary and letters to his parents, 'so I won't tell you any now. As a matter of fact between you & me & the gatepost I haven't any time to do so'; he concludes with news of conditions, 'Rotten weather here. But we are very comfortable in a tent with sleeping bags', in pencil, one page, 4to, on B.A.E. paper (soiled).
A letter from the early exploratory sledging of the Terra Nova shore parties. Priestley was a veteran of Nimrod expedition, and three days previously had revisited Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds, which he found eerily unchanged from two years before.
Autograph letter signed ('Ray') to his wife Edith ('Dear Edie'), Camp at Cape Royds, 19 January 1911, a hurried note 'to send you a stamp with every good wish for the season & next'; she will learn his news from his diary and letters to his parents, 'so I won't tell you any now. As a matter of fact between you & me & the gatepost I haven't any time to do so'; he concludes with news of conditions, 'Rotten weather here. But we are very comfortable in a tent with sleeping bags', in pencil, one page, 4to, on B.A.E. paper (soiled).
A letter from the early exploratory sledging of the Terra Nova shore parties. Priestley was a veteran of Nimrod expedition, and three days previously had revisited Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds, which he found eerily unchanged from two years before.