From the first traces discovered on Cape Riley in 1850, the RUSI Museum in Whitehall, London, laid a strong claim to being the world’s premier museum of Franklin relics. Even the trove brought back by McClintock was first exhibited there before travelling to Greenwich.
In the 1960s, however, this august museum was kicked out of its home at the Banqueting Hall, and its historical treasures dispersed throughout the world. Continue reading “Disposal records of the RUSI Museum”
“I am Lieutenant Pim of the Resolute.”
The Franklin searcher who found Robert McClure and HMS Investigator, shouting this line across the ice, is himself lost in a London cemetery. McClure happens to be buried in the same cemetery, but this time he’s not the one missing. Continue reading “Finding Pim in Kensal Green Cemetery”
Sophia Cracroft’s lost inscription at Kensal Green Cemetery. The late afternoon sun reveals the deeper holes that anchored the letters.
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This could be John Barrow’s tombstone in St. Martin’s Garden. Continue reading “Possible John Barrow tombstone”
Alison arranged for me to be able to photograph the Victory Point Record in London on February 5th. Blowing up my photos, I can see a fingerprint at the bottom of the note.
Continue reading “A fingerprint on the Victory Point Record”