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Auction: 11029 - Summer Collector's Series sale
Lot: 223

Antarctica 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition by Robert F. Scott Autograph letter signed (´Ted Wilson´) to Cyril Longhurst, secretary of the National Antarctic Expedition, Cape Town, 13 October 1901, four pages, also a lithographic ´Programme´, designed by Wilson, for the crossing of the line ceremonies, on a bifolium, 203x129mm., the letter with interesting contents expressing optimism on the Discovery´s outbound voyage: "...we are having a most excellent time, & are all as fit and well as can be", promising to send some sketches from New Zealand, referring to a photograph of himself (..."I hope ... you are content with such an ungainly fathead") and asking Longhurst to pass on any news he hears of the expedition to Wilson´s wife. "...I think we are extraordinarily lucky in our mess here, not a soul has fallen out, and the day is full of humbug and nonsense ... a better head for us than Captain Scott was surely never born". Photo Estimate £ 2,400-2,800

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£1,700