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Henry Grinnell and the American Franklin searches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Liz Cruwys
Liz Cruwys
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Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER
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Abstract

Henry Grinnell (1799–1874), a retired New York shipping magnate, maintained for 20 years a correspondence with Jane Franklin, wife of the British explorer Sir John Franklin whose ships Erebus and Terror were lost in the Arctic some time after 1845. Grinnell financed two United States expeditions and two searches by Charles Francis Hall to the Arctic to collect information on the fate of the Franklin expedition. Grinnell's letters, now held in the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute, form the basis of this article.

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Polar Record , Volume 26 , Issue 158 , July 1990 , pp. 211 - 216
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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