Series of 8 autograph letters signed ("George"), addressed to his mother, the first written from off Gravesend following departure ("Mr. Mason the photographer is not a good sailor + has been seasick most of the day"), others from Lisbon ("I am doing some of the photography + helping on the ship"), Cape Verde Islands, three from South Georgia, on both the way out (Wilkins having been sent ahead to do shore work while the Quest was being repaired) and the way back ("We are back again from the Antarctic all safe and sound and although we were held firmly by the ice for seven days, a favourable wind blew us towards the open water and the ship got free"), Gough Island ("No mail has ever been sent from here before + may never be sent again... it is perhaps the most isolated island in the world"), and Cape Town (discussing ideas for developing "a scheme for meteorological investigation in the Antarctic... it would involve an outlay of 2 million pounds at least...", and plans for a small Antarctic expedition of his own), 39 pages, on notepaper headed 'Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition/Geo. H. Wilkins, Naturalist', 8vo, September 1921-June 1922