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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 86

Documents
Ernest Shackleton
1909 (19 November) autograph signature "E.H.Shackleton" on a memorandum form printed for the Glasgow chemical merchant (and founder of the Glasgow Society of Musicians) Paul Rottenburg, a native of Danzig. Addressed and with Rottenburg’s notes to the Danzig botanist Konrad Lakowitz: "I shall lecture in Danzig – Shackleton konnte mir nicht den Tag angeben aber hiermit werden Sie fürs Erste zufrieden sein ..." ("Shackleton could not state the precise day but this will suffice you for the time being"). Central vertical fold. Photo

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS (1874 – 1922) was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. During the second expedition 1907–1909 he and three companions established a new record only 97 geographical miles from the South Pole.

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