BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910 - 1913: RAYMOND EDWARD PRIESTLEY (1886-1974) Autograph letter signed 'Ray' to his wife, Edith, dated 19 January 1911 - Mossgreen

Lot #204 - BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910 - 1913: RAYMOND EDWARD PRIESTLEY (1886-1974) Autograph letter signed 'Ray' to his wife, Edith, dated 19 January 1911

Auction House:

Mossgreen
Sale Name:

Australian & Colonial - Antique & Historical
Sale Date:

06 Nov 2014 ~ 1pm
Lot #:

204
Lot Description:

BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910 - 1913: RAYMOND EDWARD PRIESTLEY (1886-1974) Autograph letter signed 'Ray' to his wife, Edith, dated 19 January 1911
a hurried note 'to send you a stamp with every good wish for the season & next'; she will learn his news from his diary and letters to his parents, 'so I won't tell you any now.....', concluding with news of conditions, 'Rotton weather here. But we are comfortable in a tent with sleeping bags'. In pencil on B.A.E. paper
Notes:

A letter from the early exploratory sledging of the Terra Nova shore parties. Priestley was a veteran of the Nimrod Expedition and, three days previously had revisited Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds, finding it eerily unchanged.
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Estimate:

A$1,000 - 1,250
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Category:

Books & Manuscripts

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