- MS 761/10-D Letter to Reginald Pound, 27 December 1965 [Regarding Lawrence Oates Antarctic diary] 1 leaf, holograph
Oates, correspondence
This material is held atScott Polar Research Institute Archives, University of Cambridge
- Reference
- GB 15 Violet Oates/Correspondence
- Dates of Creation
- 22 October 1965
- Name of Creator
- Physical Description
- Letter
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The correspondence relates to the Antarctic diary of her brother Lawrence written during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott) and its subsequent destruction.
Reginald Pound wrote a biography of Robert Falcon Scott, published in 1965.
Arrangement
Chronological.
Bibliography
Scott of the Antarctic by Reginald Pound, first published 1966, SPRI Library shelf 92[Scott R F]