SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922). Two letters signed ('E.H. Shackleton' and 'Ernest Shackleton') to Mrs R. Everitt, 9 Regent Street, London, 15 February and 25 March 1912, the first typescript, the second in a secretary's hand, the first stating willingness to attend a meeting, but warning that 'I may be called away from England at any time. If it within the range of possibility I shall be very pleased to speak'; the second reflecting that 'it was a pretty thin meeting, but still I only went as you and your husband asked me ... Please excuse my not writing myself, but I am living in a wild rush', together two pages, 4to and 8vo ; envelope. In the long years between the great success of the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) and the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917, a series of business schemes, allied to speaking engagements and future polar plans, kept Shackleton constantly in a 'wild rush'. At the time Shackleton wrote these letters, the Southern Party of his great rival Robert Falcon Scott were in the last stages of exhaustion and scurvy on the Great Ice Barrier; Scott died approximately 4 days after the second letter. (2)
SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922). Two letters signed ('E.H. Shackleton' and 'Ernest Shackleton') to Mrs R. Everitt, 9 Regent Street, London, 15 February and 25 March 1912, the first typescript, the second in a secretary's hand, the first stating willingness to attend a meeting, but warning that 'I may be called away from England at any time. If it within the range of possibility I shall be very pleased to speak'; the second reflecting that 'it was a pretty thin meeting, but still I only went as you and your husband asked me ... Please excuse my not writing myself, but I am living in a wild rush', together two pages, 4to and 8vo ; envelope. In the long years between the great success of the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) and the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917, a series of business schemes, allied to speaking engagements and future polar plans, kept Shackleton constantly in a 'wild rush'. At the time Shackleton wrote these letters, the Southern Party of his great rival Robert Falcon Scott were in the last stages of exhaustion and scurvy on the Great Ice Barrier; Scott died approximately 4 days after the second letter. (2)
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