The highly important farewell autograph letter signed ("R. Scott"), to Sir Edgar Speyer ("My Dear Sir Edgar"), written shortly after Captain Oates had disappeared, and only days before the tent was pitched for the final time, found with his body in the tent by the search party, 4 pages on thin sheets of paper (with perforated edge, written on recto only except last sheet with pencil note "J.M. Barrie") extracted from Scott's diary, traces of mounting at extremities of horizontal margins, 8vo (approximately 200 x 110mm.), within a purpose-made morocco presentation case surmounted with gilt-metal "S" within a laurel wreath "Lat 79.50S. March 16", [1912]
The highly important farewell autograph letter signed ("R. Scott"), to Sir Edgar Speyer ("My Dear Sir Edgar"), written shortly after Captain Oates had disappeared, and only days before the tent was pitched for the final time, found with his body in the tent by the search party, 4 pages on thin sheets of paper (with perforated edge, written on recto only except last sheet with pencil note "J.M. Barrie") extracted from Scott's diary, traces of mounting at extremities of horizontal margins, 8vo (approximately 200 x 110mm.), within a purpose-made morocco presentation case surmounted with gilt-metal "S" within a laurel wreath "Lat 79.50S. March 16", [1912]
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