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SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)
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First edition of Scott's narrative, with a loosely inserted letter written in the month of publication by the book's publisher Reginald Smith to the political journalist and Polar devotee Henry William Lucy: "Dear Mr. Lucy/ I am very glad to see that you like the Antarctic book so much. You have said, in "Punch" and in "Vanity Fair", in print and much more forcibly, what I have been telling Captain Scott for the last twelve months while he was writing his book. Now he is inclined to believe me!/ Yours faithfully/ Reginald Smith". Henry Lucy had reviewed Scott's book in Punch six days earlier, ending "Written in the simple literary form in which brave men naturally narrate their doings, no more glowing narrative of adventure is to be met with in the English language". Lucy was also a friend of Shackleton and a major fund-raiser for his Polar ventures, in recognition of which the explorer named a mountain after him in Antarctica.



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