Douglas, correspondence

This material is held atScott Polar Research Institute Archives, University of Cambridge

  • Reference
    • GB 15 George Douglas/Correspondence
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1922-1946
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 13 letters

Scope and Content

  • MS 1591/1/5/2;D Letter to Alexander Hepburne Macklin, 27 October 1922 [Acknowledges photographs and letter] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/6;D Letter to Alexander Hepburne Macklin, 29 November 1922 [Requests the original of the chart of the voyage] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/7;D Letter to Alexander Hepburne Macklin, 1 December 1922 [Discusses the geological section of the book] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/9;D Letter to Alexander Hepburne Macklin, 17 December 1922 [Explains delay in the geological report] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/10;D Letter to Alexander Hepburne Macklin, 19 December 1922 [Explains that he (Macklin) has the negatives of the photographs in question] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/1;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 20 October 1922 [Discusses guano deposits on Ascension Island] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/3;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 7 November 1922 [Requests original of chart of the voyage] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/4;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 23 November 1922 [Discusses possibility of gold, silver or copper mines on South Georgia] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/5;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 25 November 1922 [Invitation to a lecture and discusses geology report] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/8;D Letter to John Robert Francis Wild, 5 December 1922 [Discusses geological report] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/11;D Letter to John Robert Francis Wild, 20 December 1922 [Asks for the size of photographs required] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/5/12;D Letter to John Robert Francis Wild, undated [States that he will send the illustration] holograph
  • MS 1559/2;D Letter to James Wordie, 10 December 1946 [Regarding Newfoundland Geological Expedition to Labrador, 1946] 3 leaves

Administrative / Biographical History

The correspondence relates to the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton) and to the Newfoundland Geological Expedition to Labrador, 1946.

Arrangement

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by recipient.

Related Material

The Institute holds archival collections for Macklin, Rowett, Wild and Wordie.