Cherry-Garrard, correspondence

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

Scope and Content

  • MS 559/42;D Letter to Edward Leicester Atkinson, 3 April 1913 [Regarding the British Antarctic Expedition, 19101-1913 and the Dog Journey] 1 leaf, holograph
  • MS 559/43;D Letter to Francis Drake, undated [June 1913] [Regarding his letter to Underwood Typewriter Co.] 1 leaf, copy
  • MS 559/44/1-2;D Letter to Edward RGR Evans, 26 June 1913 [Regarding his correspondence with the Underwood Typewriting Co.] 2 leaves, 1 holograph (Copies)
  • MS 841/3/1-2;D Telegrams (2) to Garrard, Wheathampstead, 4 April 1912 and 15 February 1913 [Copies of telegrams home regarding the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913] 2 leaves, holograph
  • MS 559/45/1-3;D Letters (3) to Canon Glossop, 9 to 11 May 1916 [Regarding the stipend of the curate of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire] 3 leaves, holograph
  • MS 559/52/1-8;D Copy letters and drafts (8) to Dr Sidney Harmer (as director of Natural History at the British Museum), 1916 to 1923 [Mainly regarding the reception Cherry-Garrard received by the British Museum on returning from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 with emperor penguin eggs] 11 leaves, holograph
  • MS 559/47;D Letter to Albert Hemstock Hodge, 13 July 1914 [Regarding the Antarctic memorial] 1 leaf, autograph copy
  • MS 559/78;D Letter to Edgar Jacobs (Bishop of St Albans), 8 May 1916 [Regarding the appointment of Canon Nance to the living at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire] 1 leaf, autograph copy
  • MS 559/46;D Letter to Cannon Nance, 8 March 1918 [Regarding a war memorial to be erected in Wheathampstead] 4 leaves, autograph copy
  • MS 559/48;D Letter to Herbert Ponting, 18 December 1913 [Regarding lectures given using Ponting's slides] 1 leaf, holograph, copy
  • MS 559/49;D Letter to Major Richardson, 21 August 1914 [Regarding his visit to Devonshire Hose, changes of circumstances in Belgium] 1 leaf, holograph copy
  • MS 1453/65/1-5;D Letters (5) to Kathleen Scott, [1913] to 4 October 1923 [Various matters regarding the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913] 5 leaves, holograph
  • MS 586/1;D Note to Robert Falcon Scott, 16 march [1912] [Found by R W Richards of the Ross Sea Party of the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 near the corner camp on the Ross ice shelf and left on E Joyce's bunk at Cape Evans] 1 page, autograph (dirty and stained)
  • MS 934/4/1-3;D Letters (2) and Christmas Card to George Seaver, 1929 to 1950 [Regarding publishing, poems and drawings of a penguin] 3 leaves, holograph
  • MS 559/41/1-2;D Letters (2) to Isabel Smith (Mrs Reginald John Smith), 27 November 1910 and 15 February 1912 [Written during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913] 2 leaves, autograph
  • MS 559/40/1-13;D Letters (13) to Reginald John Smith, 19 June 1910 to 6 March 1913 [Written during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913] 36 leaves, mainly holograph
  • MS 841/4;D Letter to Reginald John Smith, 25 February [1912] [Regarding plans to meet Pole Party] 2 leaves, holograph
  • MS 1557;D Letter to Mr White, 10 August 193[0] [Regarding record of bearings, left at Scott's grave] 1 folio
  • MS 1295/1-3;D Notes (3) written to Edward Adrian Wilson and Henry Robertson Bowers, 24 to 28 December 1911 [These notes were found on the bodies of Wilson and Bowers] 3 leaves, holograph
  • MS 559/157;D Letter from unknown correspondent, 16 May 1916 [Personal news and reference to armoured cars] 1 leaf, holograph, incomplete

Administrative / Biographical History

The correspondence covers Cherry-Garrard's experiences during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott) and personal letters regarding his home in Wheathampstead and local matters.

Arrangement

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by recipient.

Related Material

There are a large number of letters to Cherry-Garrard held in different archival collections at the Institute, for more details on their contents see the following collections:

  • GB 15 George Abbott
  • GB 15 Peter Ashton
  • GB 15 William Apsley Smith
  • GB 15 Frances and Richard Assheton
  • GB 15 Edward Leicester Atkinson
  • GB 15 Harley Granville Barker
  • GB 15 Michael Barr
  • GB 15 Henry Bazett
  • GB 15 Lewis Beaumont
  • GB 15 Frederick Lambart
  • GB 15 Evelyn Cherry-Garrard
  • GB 15 John Lachlan Cope
  • GB 15 Thomas Crean
  • GB 15 Frank Debenham
  • GB 15 Francis Drake
  • GB 15 Jacob Epstein
  • GB 15 Edward R.G.R. Evans
  • GB 15 William Fitchett
  • GB 15 Sidney Harmer
  • GB 15 Albert Hodge
  • GB 15 Leonard Huxley
  • GB 15 Charles Jagger
  • GB 15 George Levick
  • GB 15 Caroline Oates
  • GB 15 Herbert Ponting
  • GB 15 Sir Raymond Priestley
  • GB 15 Hannah Scott
  • GB 15 Lady Kathleen Scott
  • GB 15 Robert Falcon Scott
  • GB 15 George Seaver
  • GB 15 Edward Adrian Wilson
  • GB 15 Oriana Wilson
  • GB 15 Sir Charles Wright