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Lot 127

POLAR EXPLORATION – SCOTT, PEARY AND SHACKLETON
Autograph letter signed by Robert Falcon Scott ("R.F. Scott"), to Mr [W.F.G.] Anderson, accepting an invitation on behalf of himself and Shackleton, [?November 1904]; and two others by Peary and Lord Roberts

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POLAR EXPLORATION – SCOTT, PEARY AND SHACKLETON

Autograph letter signed by Robert Falcon Scott ("R.F. Scott"), to Mr [W.F.G.] Anderson, accepting an invitation on behalf of himself and Shackleton ("...I have communicated with Mr Shackleton and finding he has made no other arrangement I shall be delighted to accept your kind invitation for dinner on Nov 14th...") and apologising for his delay in replying ("...I have a great deal to do just at present..."), 3 pages, engraved heading, some dust-staining and tape stain on blank verso, 16mo, 56 Oakley Street, no date [?November 1904]; autograph letter signed by Robert Edwin Peary ("R.E. Peary, U.S.N."), to Anderson, regretting that his invitation for 14 November clashes with the date of his lecture in Glasgow [at the Athenaeum] and hoping he can rearrange the date, 2 pages, mounted with newsclipping describing the lecture, dust-staining on blank verso, 8vo, Keppel's Head Hotel, Portsmouth, 8 November 1903; and a letter by Lord Roberts

Footnotes

'I HAVE COMMUNICATED WITH MR SHACKLETON' -- Scott moved to rented accommodation in Oakley Street, from where this letter was written, on his return from the Discovery Expedition in September 1904, when he was welcomed home by Shackleton who had been invalided out of the expedition early. It seems likely to date from that autumn, when the two men were still on amicable terms and Scott was engaged on a lecture tour that took him up to Scotland (their friendship was to break down a year later with publication of Scott's Voyage of the 'Discovery', with its slighting references to Shackleton and his collapse). The recipient of Scott and Peary's letters can be identified as W.F.G. Anderson, a prominent Glasgow citizen and partner in the Anchor shipping line, who died in December 1907.

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