Keltie, correspondence

• MS 101/52/1-3;D Letters (3) to William Speirs Bruce, 1910 [Award to Bruce of Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society]
• MS 100/56;D Letter to Hugh Robert Mill, 9 April 1912 [Amundsen's attainment of the pole] holograph
• MS 932/9/1;D Letter to Hugh Robert Mill, 2 April 1919 [Recommending John Lachlan Cope's proposed expedition] 1 leaf, holograph
• MS 356/65/1-8;D Letters (8) to Robert Neal Rudmose Brown, Royal Geographical Society, 10 June 1912 to 21 April 1915 [Presentation of papers at the Society] 10 leaves, holograph and typescript
• MS 7;D Letters (3) to Kathleen Scott, 23 May 1912 to 1 October 1918 [Amundsen's attainment of the pole] holograph and typescript
• MS 1453/121/1-3;D Letters (3) to Kathleen Scott, 16 May to 11 September 1913 [On medals for the Scott expedition and J.F. Stackhouse] 3 leaves, holograph and typescript
• MS 1453/122/1-8;D Letters (8) to Robert Falcon Scott, 2 February to 29 May 1907 [Mainly about Shackleton's proposed expedition] 14 leaves, holograph and typescript
• MS 8;D Letter to Robert Falcon Scott, 19 May 1907 [Impressions of Scott and John Walter Gregory, British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904] holograph
• MS 1266/1-2;D Letters (2) to Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Geographical Society, 19 and 20 September 1912 [General polar news, mention of Roald Amundsen, acquisition of a new building] 12 leaves, typescript (Xerox)
• MS 1537/2/16/4;D Letter to Emily Shackleton, 19 May 1908 [Refers to Ernest Shackleton, McMurdo Sound, the Royal Geographical Society]
• MS 1537/2/17/6;D Letter to Emily Shackleton, 29 April 1908 [Refers to Captain England]
• MS 1537/2/14/5;D Letter to Ernest Henry Shackleton, 14 February 1907 [Regarding Arctowski and Charcot]
• MS 1537/2/15/3;D Letter to Ernest Henry Shackleton, 6 March 1907
• MS 1537/2/15/18;D Letter to Ernest Henry Shackleton, 27 March 1907
• MS 100/139;D 'Sir Ernest Shackleton' [Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Ross Sea Party] 8 leaves, typescript (carbon)

The correspondence relate primarily to the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904 (leader William Speirs Bruce), British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (leader Ernest Henry Shackleton), the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott), the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1912 (Leader Roald Amundsen) and the British Expedition to Graham Land, 1920-1922 (leader John Lachlan Cope).

Alphabetical.

MS 1537/2/16/3-6;D and MS 1537/2/15/18;D Copies of the Shackleton correspondence can be found in the Institute amongst the Fisher papers reference 1456/19.

The Institute holds several archival collections relating to these expeditions including ones for Bruce, Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen and Cope.