Wilkins, correspondence

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

  • Reference
    • GB 15 George Hubert Wilkins
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1921-1935
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 9 letters

Scope and Content

  • MS 931/1/7;D Letter to Bagshawe and Lester, 28 November 1921 [From Montevideo, Uruguay] holograph copy
  • MS 1591/1/9/2;D Letter to the Director of Lawes Agricultural Trust farm, Harpenden Hertfordshire, 17 June 1922 [Forwarding a parcel of soil samples] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/9/1;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 25 November 1921 [To accompany a copy of preliminary natural history reports from the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/9/3;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 19 June 1922 [Notification that 16 cases of specimens from the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922 were dispatched to the British Museum] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/9/4;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 15 February 1923 [Letter accompanies Biological Report of the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/9/5;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 15 February 1923 [Letter accompanies Entomology Report of the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/9/6;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, 16 February 1923 [Corrections for list of species in report of the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/9/7;D Letter to John Quiller Rowett, undated [Letter accompanies 3 sections of the Natural History reports of the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922] holograph
  • MS 1591/1/9/8;D Letter to unknown person, undated [Accompanies botanical report] holograph

Administrative / Biographical History

Letters by Wilkins regarding the British Expedition to Graham Land, 1920-1922 (leader John Lachlan Cope), the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton) and the Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition, 1935-1936 (leader Lincoln Ellsworth)

Arrangement

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by recipient.

Related Material

See also SPRI collections GB 015 Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe, GB 015 John Lachlan Cope, and GB 015 Maxime Charles Lester regarding the British Expedition to Graham Land, 1920-1922

  • MS 938/2;BJ Douglas,E. Journal, January 1936