1991.1016.108.9

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (author)

Letter dated 25th August 1923 to Emery Walker from Apsley Cherry-Garrard (ACG) expressing gratitude for a recent visit to the Walkers at Daneway and for EW's letter. ACG also reports that he fell over a cliff in Devonshire, a fall of 80 feet or more. 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.

1923-08-25 - 1923-08-25

20th century

Letter from Apsley Cherry-Garrard to Emery Walker dated 25th August 1923 (see also 1991.1016.a) Lamer Park Wheathampstead Herts. Dear Walker, Many thanks for your letter and for the panoramas which will, no doubt, arrive in due course. After one day here I went to Devonshire and fell immediately over a cliff for 80 feet or more. To lie down or to sit down has been extraordinarily difficult, and I hope that when you write to Miss Walker you will explain why I have not written to her, as I should otherwise have done, before she left for America. I kept my consciousness and nothing was broken, but I have had the deuce and all of a shaking. I look back with great pleasure to my unbruised visit to you and Daneway and the nice [Viper] of the Lock. The [Dearmer] lunched here on Thursday and seemed to know all the people I met, though he seemed to the [pots of Powell to the pip of Crundell]. I am very glad to have seen something of that community. I have written G.B.S. to tell him he should go to Daneway. I find I haven’t got the book with G.B.S sketch of himself. You and I will have to ask him what it is called. I am very grateful to you and Miss Walker, and I hope you will let her know this for I have not her address. Yours Apsley Cherry-Garrard[i]. August 25. 1923. [Footnote: [i] Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (1886 – 1959) was an English Antarctic explorer and a survivor of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition. CAW