Bacon, B.C The Rescue at Cape Sabine np, december 21, 1933 This is written on the dedication leaf: "Gen Brainard: Grateful; for the privilege of calling you my friend. I am sending you this token of my esteem on your seventy-seventh birthday. Many happy returns. B.C. Bacon. Penman--Author. Dec. 21, 1933." It was 18 September, 1883. Twenty-five men huddled in their sleeping bags on an ice floe grinding erratically through the shifting ice and swirling currents of the Arctic's Kane Basin. They were the men of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, sent north to establish a base for scientific exploration and observation, and now engaged in a fight for their lives. The expedition had had a turbulent birth, marked by scandal and political infighting in Washington, D.C., where the Secretary of War, Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the late president, had shown marked antipathy to the whole project. As a result, when the approval finally had come, the expedition had had to assemble in haste, and it showed, from the equipment to the ships to the personnel, a group composed primarily of Army Signal Corps soldiers with no experience in the Arctic The papers of David Legge Brainard in the Dartmouth College Library are concerned primarily with his participation in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, 1881-1884. This expedition, commanded by Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and commonly known as the Greely (Arctic) Expedition, was dispatched by the United States Army to establish one of the circumpolar weather stations planned by the International Polar Conferences of 1879 and 1880. Greely's station was located at Fort Conger in Grinnell Land, a northern section of Ellsmere Island. Brainard served as first sergeant and supply chief and proved to be one of Greely's most trusted and dependable men. The expedition was successful in the gathering of meteorological and Manuscript on parchment paper. Oblong 4to. Dedicated to Gen. David Legge Brainard on his 77th Birthday. 9 leaves, calligraphy on rectos only by B.C. Bacon with floral, etc. illumination on leaves. Purple limp reversed calf, stamped in gilt Price: USD 1,500.00 other currencies   order no. 215554    inquire

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