Stenhouse, correspondence

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

  • Reference
    • GB 15 Joseph Russell Stenhouse/Correspondence
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1915-1917
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 5 letters

Scope and Content

  • MS 1537/4/4/16;D Letters (2) to Æneas Lionel Mackintosh, 3 and 5 February 1915 [Giving details ships progress and plan to carry out instructions fast to bay ice Hut Point gives details of ice conditions] 2 leaves, holograph
  • MS 1537/4/4/15;D Letter to Æneas Lionel Mackintosh, 8 March 1915 [Brief report of the ships movements since Mackintosh's departure] holograph
  • MS 1537/4/4/15;D Letter to Æneas Lionel Mackintosh, 11 March 1915 [Report of the ship stopped by ice on 9 March 1915] holograph
  • MS 1537/4/4/2;D Letter to Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton 15 February 1917 [Outlines Æneas Lionel Mackintosh's instructions about wintering of the ship and landing supplies for the shore parties]

Administrative / Biographical History

The correspondence relates to the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Ross Sea Party], 1914-1917.