The Franklin Letter

Аннотация

Recently the AINA Library was fortunate in procuring a letter signed by Sir John Franklin. It is addressed to Commissioner Robert Barrie and was written from Fort Franklin on Great Bear Lake in the fall of 1825, during Franklin's second expedition to the Canadian Arctic. The text of the long and closely written letter is given below in its entirety, except for a few illegible words which have been indicated in each case by three points. ...