Emily Shackleton collection

The collection comprises of correspondence by Emily to family members and others connected with Antarctic exploration and an account of the royal visit to the Nimrod prior to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (leader Ernest Henry Shackleton).

Emily Mary Shackleton (nee Dorman) was born in 1868, the second daughter of Charles Herbert Dorman and Janie Swinford. She met Ernest Henry Shackleton in 1897 on a visit to his sister, Kathleen, and married him in 1904. She gave birth to two sons, Raymond and Edward, and one daughter, Cecily. She was widowed when Ernest Shackleton died in South Georgia on 5 January 1922. She died in 1936.

The collection is split into three sub-fonds comprising of family correspondence, general correspondence and the Nimrod account.

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The term holograph is used when the item is wholly in the handwriting of the author. The term autograph is used when the author has signed the item.

Descriptions compiled by N. Boneham, Assistant Archivist with assistance from R. Stancombe and reference to Robert Keith Headland Antarctic Chronology, unpublished corrected revision of Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events, (1 December 2001) Cambridge University Press (1989) ISBN 0521309034 and Shackleton by Roland Huntford, Hodder and Stoughton, London (1985) SPRI Library Shelf 92[Shackleton, E.H] and James Caird Society

Clive Holland Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England - a catalogue, Garland Publishing New York and London (1982) ISBN 0824093941.

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The Scott Polar Research Institute holds a number of photographs, film and other illustrative material in the Picture Library, some of which depict Emily. The catalogue can be searched on line by going to the Picture Library Database and selecting the Enter Polar Pictures link.