Beschreibung:

Scott, Captain Robert Falcon, 1868-1912). The Voyages of Captain Scott Retold 'The Voyage of the "Discovery "' and 'Scott's Last Expedition' by Charles Turley, with an Introduction by Sir J.M. Barrie, Bell's Indian and Colonial Library, 1914, portrait frontispiece, plates and folding map as listed, errata slip tipped in at front, front free endpaper inscribed [by Captain Scott's mother Hannah], 'Mrs Campbell, with fond love & good wishes from Her Mother and 'His Mother', March 1915, Government House Hobart', stationer's stamp 'J. Walch & Sons Limited, Hobart' at foot of same page, original blue cloth with pictorial design to upper cover, rubbed and dulled, two small splits at head of spine, 8vo, together with three gilt brass Discovery Expedition uniform buttons (two coat buttons, tarnished, and one epaulette button), each with a wreathed fouled anchor inscribed underneath DISCOVERY, the reverse impressed with maker's marks for 'Firmin & Sons Limited, London'. It would appear that the three buttons must have belonged to Captain Scott as part of his uniform used during the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. Captain Scott had two older sisters, Ettie and Rose. Ettie married William Ellison Macartney in 1897 who became Governor of Tasmania. Two years later Rose married Captain Eric Campbell of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, one of her brother Archie's fellow officers in the Hausa Force. In 1913 Ettie and Rose with their mother Hannah were among those who attended the laying ceremony of the foundation stone of St. Alban's Anglican Church, Claremont, New Zealand. Another woman attending the event was Mrs Edith Knight, who commissioned a three-panel stained glass window commemorating the arrival of Scott and his companions at the South Pole and their death on the return trip. (4)