p. 98-99, relics found at Terror Bay, in boxes found near the sunken ship, with Gilder’s account most focused on the books: Tuktoocheeah said a box containing the bones was outside [the boat] but that a tin box of full of books was in the boat (Stackpole 1965: 74, 75). Gilder recorded that Ogzeuckjeuwock “saw books in the boat place” and confirmed that they were “in the boat,” as was the box of bones (Gilder 2006: 72)…. All of the writers recorded that there were three separate boxes: the first, a metal (tin) box held a number of books; the second, of similar size, contained bones; and the third box, of tin with a red cover held tobacco (Stackpole 1965: 75; Barr 1987: 73; Gilder 2006:73). The box holding the books was variously measured as “about one and half feet wide, one foot deep and nearly two feet long,” (Stackpole 1965:75), “one foot wide and two foot long” (Barr 1987: 73) and “two feet long and a foot square” (Gilder 2006: 72), and was the same size as the box holding the bones, which Schwatka incidentally recorded as two feet long. The different lengths were derived by hand signs from the Inuit (Stackpole 1965: 75). [Has anyone noted that these sizes sound suspiciously similar to the size of ASFS loan libraries. The tin doesn’t sound right however, but these would have been British products.]
Relics of the Franklin Expedition: Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
The Last of the Arctic Voyages, Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance …, in Search of Sir John Franklin, during the Years 1852-53-54.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
Belcher’s account is clearly one which he wrote during his voyage, and is interesting in noting his use of books aboard the ship, books we know to be present since they are in the catalogue of the Assistance.
The North-West Passage, and the Plans for the Search for Sir John Franklin. A Review.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
A brief review of the McClintock findings on King William Island, further plans for the Search, and a spirited appeal to the genius of England to rise to the challenge of the Franklin Search.
A Sequel to the North-West Passage, and the Plans for the Search for Sir John Franklin. A Review.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
This follow-up adds some opinion defending Franklin as the discoverer of the North-West Passage, but doesn’t appear to add much more on the Franklin Search and the earlier book. But the Harvard copy is an interesting one (Harvard Tower 120.) Presentation copy from John Barrow (Sir John Barrow’s son), with letters laid in, one dated Nov. 16, 1860: I am compelled again to differ with high arctic authority which is a matter rather of regret to me.—as you know how much I esteem
Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin’s Ships by Behring Strait. 1850-55…
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
As an unpopular commander, Collinson’s more optimistic assessments of his officers and men can be questioned.
Ms of Hints to McClintock re passage through Peel Sound etc. on his 1857 expedition.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
Includes wind and temperature tables, advice on ice conditions, hunting possibilities, articles of barter with Eskimos. Envelope dated 12 Jul 57. Refers to House of Commons orders & Arctic paper on January 1855.
Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin’s Last Polar Expedition
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
p. 11, On Hobson’s discovery in 1859 of the remains of the Franklin party: vi books—five Bibles and The Vicar of Wakefield—were also discovered, but no journals.
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
[ABEBOOKS Description]: Almost everyone knows the photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr. as a young boy, peering out from under his father's desk in the Oval Office. But few realize that the desk itself plays a part in one of the world's most extraordinary mysteries - a dramatic tale that has never before been told in its full scope. Acclaimed historian Martin Sandler - a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, winner of seven Emmy Awards, and author of more than 50 books - finally brings the entire story to light. This amazing high-seas adventure encompasses the search for the Northwest Passage in the early 1800s; a renowned explorer and his crew of 128 men who vanish during an 1845 expedition; 39 incredible, heroic attempted rescue missions; a ghost ship that drifts for more than 1,200 miles; a queen's gratitude; and that famous desk. Fascinating rare photographs, paintings, engravings, and maps illustrate the book throughout. It all began when, in one of the biggest news stories of the 19th century, Sir John Franklin and his ships the Erebus and the Terror disappeared while attempting to locate the fabled Northwest Passage. At the request of Franklin's wife, Lady Jane, the first mission set out from England in hopes of finding him; many others followed in its wake, none successful. Among these was the Resolute, the finest vessel in Queen Victoria's Navy. But in 1854 it became locked in Arctic ice and was abandoned by its captain. A year later, a Connecticut whaler discovered it 1,200 miles away - drifting and deserted, a 600-ton ghost ship. He and his small crew boarded the Resolute, and steered it through a ferocious hurricane back to New London, Connecticut. The United States government then reoutfitted the ship and returned it to the thankful Queen. In 1879, when the Resolute was finally retired, she had the best timbers made into a desk for then-President Rutherford B. Hayes. It is still used by U.S. presidents today— one of the most celebrated pieces of furniture in the White House.
Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
An Arctic Voyage to Baffin’s Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
Goodsir’s brother John had been lost with the Franklin expedition and he therefore joined one of the first of the Franklin Search expeditions in 1849.
The Arctic Dispatches Containing a Report of the Discovery of the North-West Passage.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
An Admiralty Blue Book, price 2/ Reprinted from the Nautical Magazine.
The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. Investigator, Capt. R. M’Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
HMS Investigator was one of the ships assigned to the western end of the as yet undiscovered Northwest Passage in the search for Franklin and the hope that his expedition had made it through. By confusion or arrangant independence the Investigator proceeded without its companion ship HMS Enterprise, commanded by Richard Collinson. Caught by the ice, it returned to Hong Kong while Investigator headed eastward into the Passage. The ship spent the next three winters in winter quarters until April of 1854 when the men were found by a rescue team from HMS Resolute and they escaped to the east leaving the ship abandoned. One positive outcome, despite several deaths, was that the voyage definitively established the existence of the Northwest Passage’
Frozen Ships: The Arctic Diary of Johann Miertsching, 1850-1854.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
Quite a riveting account of the Investigator Franklin search expedition by a German Moravian minister, pious but human, who was assigned primarily as an interpreter. His reading naturally centers around scripture and tracts, but he has a healthy interest in most shipboard doings.
Dr Kane’s Arctic Voyage: Explanatory of a Pictorial Illustration of the Second Grinnell Expedition.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
This is a printed version of Morton’s oral narrative of a panorama of Grinnell’s second expedition, devised shortly after Kane’s death. The introduction is a glowing panegyric to Kane.
The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
p. 57-58: Traill cites Beechey’s Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole of the Dorothea and Trent in which Franklin sailed: It is a most spirited narrative of a voyage the interest of which as a series of maritime adventures considerable exceeded its scientific results…. But considered as a record of manifold dangers and difficulties encountered with unflinching courage and overcome by brilliant seamanship, the story of their voyage must always hold a high place in the history of Arctic adventure.