Object number
1991.1016.108
Title
Folded slip of paper
Creator
Description
Letter from Edward Wilson to Emery Walker thanking him for a photograph, dated 27.05.1905. Card, in its original envelope, dated 27.05.1905, from Emery Walker in response to Wilson's letter addressed to Smith and Elder and dated 29.05.1905. Folded slip of paper from Mr Huxley, dated May 27 1905. Cutting from the TLS reviewing The World's Worst Journey, by Cherry Garrard, dated 14.12.1922. Letter to Walker from Cherry Garrard informing Walker that he had fallen off a cliff, dated 25.08.1923. Letter from Cherry Garrard to Dorothy Walker thanking her for her letter, dated 22.03.1924. Letter to Emery Walker from C.A. Oates thanking Walker for his kindness, dated 3.01.1931. Print by Kenneth Hobson after a drawing by Cherry Garrard of a penguin, dated 1950, obituary of Cherry Garrard, no date, part of cover from The Worst Journey in the World and a bookmark showing tulips in a field. Found inserted in the book, The Worst Journey in the World by Cherry - Garrard, Apsley, when acquired by the museum, shelf J6-7 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.
Production place
, London, London
Date
1905-05-27 - 1905-05-27 1905-05-29 - 1905-05-29 1922-12-14 - 1922-12-14 1923-08-25 - 1923-08-25 1924-03-22 - 1924-03-22 1931-01-03 - 1931-01-03 1905 - 1905
Production period
20th century, Arts & Crafts, 20th century, , , 20th century, 20th century
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Technique
Dimensions
- l: 154mm
- w: 100mm
- l: 120mm
- w: 77mm
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- w: 139mm
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- w: 124mm
- l: 148mm
- w: 129
Inscription
Dr Wilson who died with Captain Scott at the S. Pole.