(Edward, later first Baron Mountevans, naval officer and Antarctic explorer, 1880-1957) Typed Letter signed to the Underwood Typewriter Co., London, 1p., 8vo, on British Antarctic Exploration notepaper, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 23rd January 1913, agreeing to the return of a typewriter that was used on the expedition to display in a shop window, "I shall be glad to let you have the original machine to place in your window for advertising purposes on the receipt of another in exchange. I would suggest that a sheet of the expedition note paper should be inserted in the typewriter", folds; and 2 others, including: a medal with a typewriter embossed and with the inscription on reverase: "From FM T [FM Trevor of the Underwood Typewriter Company Ltd.,]. From JTU", v.s., v.d. (3). *** "In 1909... [Evans] was selected by Scott himself as second in command of his second expedition and captain of the Terra Nova, which left England in June 1910. He accompanied Scott in January 1912 to within 150 miles of the pole, where he turned back. Struck down by scurvy he was saved only by the devotion of his two companions., Chief Stoker Lashly and Petty officer Crean. After a brief period of convalescence in England... he returned to take command of the Terra Nova in New Zealand and sailed south, only to find on arrival at Cape Evans in January 1913 that Scott had died in an unparalleled period of bad weather when returning from the pole in March of the previous year." - Oxford DNB.
(Edward, later first Baron Mountevans, naval officer and Antarctic explorer, 1880-1957) Typed Letter signed to the Underwood Typewriter Co., London, 1p., 8vo, on British Antarctic Exploration notepaper, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 23rd January 1913, agreeing to the return of a typewriter that was used on the expedition to display in a shop window, "I shall be glad to let you have the original machine to place in your window for advertising purposes on the receipt of another in exchange. I would suggest that a sheet of the expedition note paper should be inserted in the typewriter", folds; and 2 others, including: a medal with a typewriter embossed and with the inscription on reverase: "From FM T [FM Trevor of the Underwood Typewriter Company Ltd.,]. From JTU", v.s., v.d. (3). *** "In 1909... [Evans] was selected by Scott himself as second in command of his second expedition and captain of the Terra Nova, which left England in June 1910. He accompanied Scott in January 1912 to within 150 miles of the pole, where he turned back. Struck down by scurvy he was saved only by the devotion of his two companions., Chief Stoker Lashly and Petty officer Crean. After a brief period of convalescence in England... he returned to take command of the Terra Nova in New Zealand and sailed south, only to find on arrival at Cape Evans in January 1913 that Scott had died in an unparalleled period of bad weather when returning from the pole in March of the previous year." - Oxford DNB.
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