VISIONS OF THE NORTH

Among the many correspondents in our forthcoming book of letters , two of the very youngest stand out from all the rest, both for their sinc...

A guest post by Peter Carney Sketch by John Irving The steam engines Engines fitted to Franklin’s ships Erebus and Terror have long been a t...

In my last post, I gave some previews of the remarkable letters of James Reid, the Ice Master of HMS Erebus, as they will appear in our fort...

Of all the officers of the Franklin expedition, James Reid was one of the most lively and colorful.  As James Fitzjames remarked of him in t...

A guest post by Mary Williamson, co-editor of  May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth Roderic Fenwick-Owen (1921-2011) or “Uncle Roddy” as I knew...

Of all the many portraits of Franklin's men that emerge from our volume of letters, that of Harry Goodsir, the expedition's naturali...

Among James Fitzjames's many gifts and proclivities, a weakness for what in Britain are called "puns," and in America "ba...

(National Library of Australia) In the process of writing the notes for our volume of Franklin expedition letters, we learned a lot of seemi...

At last it can be told: after more than five years of work collecting, transcribing, and annotating -- not to mention permission-getting, pr...

Levinge's grave on Ascension Along with my colleagues Peter Carney, Gina Koellner, and Mary Williamson, I've found that the work on ...

After a considerable amount of diligent searching over several weeks, I'm very happy to be able to say that John Gregory's baptismal...