Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), Arctic explorer

Date:: c.1824

Reference:: MS.7486/23-24

Part of:: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike CollectionMSS.7481-7490
- Original documents and cuttings from published material relating to various explorersMS.7486
  - Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), Arctic explorerMS.7486/23-24

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Description

1 autograph letter, signed, to the scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867), n.d. (no.23); sketch-map of the then-known north Canadian coast, from Icy Cape to Prince Regent Inlet, illustrating the planned overland journey by Franklin and John Richardson (1787-1865), 1824 (no.24).

Publication/Creation

c.1824

Physical description

2 items

Finding aids

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

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