Ross, Rear-Admiral Sir John, (1777-1856), Arctic explorer

Correspondence formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Comprised of the following:

MS.7403/1-11: Letters by Ross. 11 autograph letters by Ross, mostly signed but 1 (no.9) in the third person; no.8 consists of a letter to Ross with his reply written on the verso. 1828-1853

MS.7403/12: Autograph admission ticket, signed by Ross, to a panorama of Boothia. 19th century

MS.7403/13-17: Notes on the ship Victory . 5 autograph notes, signed by Ross, giving details of the ship Victory used on his expedition of 1829-1833; the notes probably written for autograph collectors. c.1833

MS.7403/18: Cutting. Cutting from a mgazine, featuring Ross as no.45 in a "Gallery of Literary Characters", satirising his being lionised by London society. 1834

19th century

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Purchased from: Stevens, London, September 1930 (acc.56565), March 1931 (acc.56490 and 68135), July 1931 (acc.68190) and September 1931 (acc.68262); Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67620) and August 1932 (acc.67698); Sotheby's, London, February 1932 (acc.76066). Provenance details of no.8 not recorded (acc.67430); no.13 part of a batch of material transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum offices, provenance not known (acc.69200).

At Wellcome Collection: For papers relating to Ross's nephew and shipmate Rear-Admiral James Clark Ross (1800-1862) see MS.7404/13-14.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts