Newnes, correspondence

Scope and Content

  • MS 100/86;D Letter to Hugh Robert Mill, 16 March 1899 [On Borchgrevink's arrival at Cape Adare] typescript
  • MS 1453/142/D Letter to Robert Falcon Scott, 20 June 1901 [Requires early decision on whether Scott wants dogs that are on Stewart Island, New Zealand] 1 leaf, holograph

Administrative / Biographical History

The correspondence relates to two Antarctic expedition's, the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900 (leader Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink) and the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (leader Robert Falcon Scott)

Arrangement

Alphabetically.

Related Material

For additional material relating to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900, see SPRI collections:

  • GB 015 Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink
  • GB 015 Louis Charles Bernacchi
  • GB 015 Janet Crawford
  • GB 015 Axel Melby
  • GB 015 Sir Clements Markham

See GB 015 British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 for a fuller list of archival collections held by the Institute containing material on this expedition.