- MS 116/17;D Letter to William Penny, 2 June 1853 [Asks him to procure a specimen of an Eskimo skull] holograph
Davis, correspondence
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- Dates of Creation1853
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William Penny was born on 12 July 1809 at Peterhead, Scotland. He made his first whaling voyage at the age of twelve, sailing to the Greenland Sea in Alert under the command of his father
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