By Elissa B.G. Mullins Twenty-one pieces of manuscript correspondence relating to Arctic and Antarctic exploration have recently been cataloged! These materials can now be accessed as Post-1650 MS 0840-0852. Many pieces of correspondence contain information of great scientific and historical significance, while others are only indirectly connected to polar exploration, such as Sir John Richardson’s […]
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Poem in Sir John Franklin’s Narrative Identified
May 18, 2012
Martyn Beardsley, author of Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin, has brought to my attention that the poem written in the University of Illinois’s copy of Franklin’s Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea is in fact by Franklin’s first wife, Eleanor Porden. In his research, Beardsley examined unpublished […]
Unpublished Poem by Sir John Franklin on the Difficulties of Writing (Q. 919.8 F85n)
May 8, 2012
John Franklin. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray, 1823. In 1966, the University of Illinois purchased a significant group of manuscripts and books from the personal collection of Sir John Richardson (1787-1855). Richardson was a naturalist and surgeon who […]