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SHACKLETON, Edward A. (1911-1994). Typed letter signed (“Edward Shackleton) to Paul F. Cruikshank, London, 13 September 1937.
SHACKLETON, Edward A. (1911-1994). Typed letter signed (“Edward Shackleton) to Paul F. Cruikshank, London, 13 September 1937.

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SHACKLETON, Edward A. (1911-1994). Typed letter signed (“Edward Shackleton) to Paul F. Cruikshank, London, 13 September 1937.

成交价 美元 375
成交价 美元 375
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SHACKLETON, Edward A. (1911-1994). Typed letter signed (“Edward Shackleton) to Paul F. Cruikshank, London, 13 September 1937.

One page, 254 x 204mm, on Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition letterhead (clean and bright). Housed in custom marbled board portfolio with gilt title. Provenance: Bloomsbury, 16 October 2008, lot 238.

A letter from Edward Shackleton to the head of the Taft School in Watertown, CT, with eight original photographs. Edward, the youngest son of the great explorer, was only eleven when his father died en route to Antarctica. He became an explorer in his own right, and here inquires with Cruikshank about including Taft on his lecture tour promoting the Oxford Ellesmere Land Expedition. He writes that his talk will be “in no way technical, and out of the one hundred and forty lectures ... given in Europe, over half were to schools.” Shackleton was later a member of Parliament and the House of Lords. His daughter, Alexandra Shackleton, continues to be intimately involved with Shackleton family matters and is president of the James Caird Society, London.

[With:] 2 photographs of Shackleton (124 x 88mm) and 6 photographs of the Ellesmere expedition (61 x 85mm), all but one mounted together on a sheet of card.

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