Donat LeBourdais collection

The collection comprises of papers (including correspondence) relating to LeBourdais work on Stefansson and Wilkins

Donat LeBourdais wrote a biography on the explorer Vilhjamur Stefansson (1879-1962) and collected papers on fellow explorer George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958)

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Descriptions compiled by N. Boneham, Assistant Archivist with assistance from R. Stancombe and reference to and 'Vilhjalmur Stefansson' (1879-1962) by Richard S Finnie in Arctic volume 35 number 2 June 1982 p336-337 and Polar Record volume 11 number 73 January 1963 p513-514 and Exploring Polar Frontiers, a historical encyclopaedia by William Mills, San Diego and Oxford, 2003 and 'Sir George Hubert Wilkins' by Brian Roberts in The Polar Record (May 1959) volume 9 number 62 p489-491

Clive Holland Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England - a catalogue, Garland Publishing New York and London (1982) ISBN 0824093941.

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