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Of all the continents Richard Byrd, Antarctic Discovery , 1936, p. 1.
the exploration of the Royal Geographical Society, Report of 6th International Geographical Congress, 1896.
Beauty is still sleeping Roald Amundsen, The South Pole, 1912, p. 194.
The stark polar lands ES, The Heart of the Antarctic I, 1909, p. 1.
The combined armies of Frederick A. Cook, Through the First Antarctic Night, 1900, p. 468.
This is how it Doris Lessing, Afterword to The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, 1982, p. 130.
When I first knew Introduction to Seaver, Wilson, p. xx.
I shall be only ECG to ACG, 11 December 1910, family collection.
the greyhound of the The Times, 11 January 1887.
the Bishop is a Harry Woollcombe, CEMS Men’s Magazine ( January 1910), Lambeth Palace Library.
a very cultivated, capable AF to Roland Farrer, 4 January 1910, BRO.
My dear Cherry-Garrard EW to ACG, 8 December 1909.
I am biased in EW to ACG, 18 April 1910.
Dr Wilson is up RS to ACG, 3 February 1910.
Welcome home delighted see EW to ACG, 7 April 1910.
I have seen Wilson RS to ACG, 18 April 1910.
Putting it quite baldly ibid.
I am more sorry EW to ACG, 20 April 1910.
Captain Scott wants to EW to ACG, 25 April 1910.
as vague blobs walking . . . At that time I WJ, p. 239.
Chapter 4: Winning All Hearts
The Discovery was a Seaver, Wilson , p. 198.
I shall never forget E. R. G. R. Evans, South with Scott, 1921, p. 6.
The verb ‘to wangle’ ibid., p. 7.
Every prospect of a Journal, 21 June 1910.
an ever-ready laugh Charles Wright, Silas: The Antarctic Diaries and Memoir of Charles S. Wright, eds. Colin Bull & Pat F. Wright, Columbus, 1993, p. 28.
excellent food – I had Journal, 23 June 1910.
This is always to ibid.
I really never have EW to RS, 26 June 1910.
And so with a Fridjtof Nansen to Roald Amundsen, 2 April 1913, Oslo, trans. Roland Huntford.
The pump is going Journal, 23 June 1910.
I think I shall ibid., 27 June 1910.
as happy as the WJ, p. 4.
He was father and Draft material, WJ.
by far the most EW, Diary of the ‘Terra Nova’ Expedition to the Antarctic 1910–1912, ed. H. G. R. King, 1972, 26 January 1911.
He is only eighteen HB to May Bowers, 22 August 1910.
Enjoying myself greatly Journal, 17 July 1910.
I have been more ibid., 23 July 1910.
the lack of something Silas, p. 9.
robust, willing and uncompromising Draft material, WJ.
good-hearted, strong, keen SLE, 5 May 1911.
though there was hardly WJ, p. 10.
Campbell, Cherry-Garrard and EW, Diary, 11 August 1910.
When we first got WJ, p. 15.
One of the days Journal, 26 July 1910.
Wilson took Cherry-Garrard Evans, South with Scott , p. 15.
We are [a] peaceloving party HB to Emily Bowers, 23 August 1910.
we usually hunt in HB to May Bowers, 25 September 1910.
Cherry-Garrard is a ibid.
our young millionaire . . . a HB to Emily Bowers, 22 June 1910.
There wasn’t a twist George Seaver, Birdie Bowers of the Antarctic, 1938, p. 72.
I love my country HB to May Bowers, 17 July 1907.
Ever since I went HB to Emily Bowers, 6 September 1907.
If only they will HB to Emily Bowers, 30 April 1909.
Well, we’re landed with Elspeth Huxley, Scott of the Antarctic, 1977, p. 189.
the wives are much Journal, 16 August 1910.
I glowed rather foolishly Lady Kennet [KS], Self-Portrait of an Artist, 1949, p. 76.
Darling, I will be Louisa Young, A Great Task of Happiness , 1995, p. 93.
little rippers and ladies HB to May Bowers, 28 August 1910.
with staid and proper et seq. HB to May Bowers, 1 September 1910.
I did a lot Journal, 4 September 1910.
It will be terrible HB to May Bowers, 22 August 1910.
It is delightful to EW to RS, 10 September 1910.
one of the landsmen Thomas Griffith Taylor, With Scott: the Silver Lining, 1916, p. 13.
as strong as a EW to RS, 10 September 1910.
takes no part in . . . has a taste for Silas, p. 27.
Evans is leader in FD, The Quiet Land: The Antarctic Diaries of Frank Debenham, ed. June Debenham Back, Huntingdon, 1992, p. 24.
To all his comrades Raymond Priestley, ‘Robert Falcon Scott’, unpublished essay, 1960, p. 13.
I hope it will EW, Diary, 12 October 1910.
Cherry-Garrard had a W. H. Fitchett to RS, 17 October 1910.
Mrs Wilson told me ibid.
Beg leave to inform Original telegram lost.
I shall be at WJ, p. 41.
We are all a Journal, 24 October 1910.
Among the executive officers WJ, p. 43.
I was very frightened ibid., p. 4.
Campbell as the President EW, Diary, 11 July 1910.
Cherry-Garrard has won . . . You will be equally RFS to RS, 18 November 1910, in WJ, p. lxi (original lost).
minding his cakes at RS to AF, 29 December 1910, BRO.
We are all working ECG to ACG, 20 November 1910, family collection.
I feel you have ECG to ACG, 11 December 1910, family collection.
I am so very ibid.
in the night when ECG to ACG, 27 November 1910, family collection.
and hoped it would ECG to ACG, 25 December 1910, family collection.
Nobby. Aged. Goes with LO, Diary (destroyed; partially copied out by his sister Violet and quoted in Sue Limb and Patrick Cordingley, Captain Oates: Soldier and Explorer, 1995, p. 122).
There was more blood LO to Caroline Oates, 23 November 1910.
If ever Con has KS, Diary, 28 November 1910, Kennet Papers.
I don’t know who HB to May Bowers, 28 November 1910.
wonderfully capable SLE, 20 January 1911.
was the last straw HB to Emily Bowers, 7 December 1910.
From the first I Annotated journal [Sept–Oct 1910].
May it never be HB to Emily Bowers, 7 December 1910.
In a quiet way FD, The Quiet Land, p. 125.
to raise a mutiny . . . It seems incredible that Marginalia, private collection.
Dante tells us that WJ, pp. 48–9.
As I looked into Raymond Priestley, ‘The Polar Expedition as a Psychological Study’, unpublished lecture transcript, July 1955.
For sheer downright misery WJ, p. 50.
One scientist reverted to Taylor, With Scott, p. 45.
a halo of good WJ, p. 318.
Large iceberg ahead, sir Herbert Ponting, The Great White South, 1921, p. 28.
We are shaking down Journal, 9 December 1910.
One of the best ibid.
It was more than ibid., 10 December 1910.
I have never thought ibid., 11 December 1910.
to moon around with ibid., 15 December 1910.
What an exasperating game SLE, 18 December 1910.
ignominiously called back . . . Felt a bit chippy Journal, 21 December 1910.
a general scrap . . . Titus dragged all Bill’s ibid. , 24 December 1910.
the most Christmassy Christmas ibid., 25 December 1910.
A most acceptable pair Taylor, With Scott, p. 13.
very pleasant but with Thomas Griffith Taylor, Diary, 17 December 1910, in The Griffith Taylor Collection, ed. Wayne Hanley, unpublished, 1978.
Cherry is very generous HB to Emily Bowers, 23 August 1910.
I do think in FD, The Quiet Land, p. 37.
Have you seen the . . . And there they were WJ, p. 81.
the very air permeated HB to May Bowers, 1 January 1911.
Our previous troubles seem ibid.
I have seen Fuji WJ, p. 82.
I made an awful Journal, 4 January 1911.
Many watched all night WJ, p. 86.
my private chapel Seaver, Wilson, p. 213.
These days are with EW, Diary, 4 January 1911.
There, if anywhere, is Taylor, With Scott, p. 448.
Antarctica reflects the mystery Barry Lopez, ‘The Gift of Good Land’, Antarctic Journal of the United States XXVII, 2 (June 1992), p. 1.
Chapter 5: Out of the World
It is wonderfully comfortable Journal, 18 January 1911.
This evening a variety ibid., 12 January 1911.
ready for everything RFS to RS, 1 February 1911.
a second year has ACG to AF, 19 January 1911, BRO.
I am enjoying every ACG to AF, 19 January 1911, BRO.
I expect you are ACG to AF, 2 January 1911, BRO.
If we sat down WJ, p. 107.
We finally left camp ibid.
It is a terrible ECG to ACG, 14 May 1911, family collection.
Every seal-hole was ibid., p. 110.
As we came up ibid., p. 115.
Cherry-Garrard is remarkable SLE, 13 February 1911.
It was surprising what Evans, South with Scott, p. 75.
He is excellent and SLE, 19 February 1911.
everybody as happy as Journal, 19 February 1911.
Cherry, you are going ibid., 20 February 1911.
There is a pleasant air ibid., 21 February 1911.
My companions today were SLE, 21 February 1911.
Up to this day Annotated journal [February 1911].
I never thought he . . . But above all and SLE, 22 February 1911.
The world will watch Raymond Priestley, Antarctic Adventure , 1914, p. 40.
For an hour or WJ, p. 132.
By Jove what a Journal, 24 February 1911.
Scott said we could . . . We had hours of Annotated journal [February 1911].
to go forward and SLE, 22 February 1911.
He said it was Annotated journal [February 1911].
Teddy a quitter Silas, p. 117.
almost in tears Annotated journal [March 1911].
a queer study – his SLE, 5 May 1911 [1968 facsimile edition].
He is the best HB to Emily Bowers, 28 November 1910.
He is a man HB to Emily Bowers, [n.d.] July–August 1910.
The tops of the . . . a dark streak of . . . Very little was said HB, ‘letter home’ (copied out by his mother into an exercise book), n.d., pp. 32–5.
utterly done. I remember Journal, 1 March 1911.
I suppose there is ibid.
It was not a . . . What about the ponies . . . I don’t care a HB, ‘letter home’, pp. 40–2.
Between us and the WJ, p. 158.
This is the end ibid., p. 182.
The others meanwhile, a SLE, 3 March 1911.
Scott was the man Marginalia, private collection.
Oh! Cherry, Cherry, why Journal, 3 March 1911.
The events of the SLE, 2 March 1911.
We spent . . . our evenings WJ, p. 164.
Perhaps this is not ibid.
Supper by candlelight in Silas, p. 119.
Bit by bit I SLE, 17 March 1911.
a very lazy and Journal, 28 March 1911.
contemporary to ten years Silas, p. 120.
Robinson Crusoe genius E. R. G. R. Evans, ‘My Recollections of a Gallant Comrade’, Strand Magazine, December 1913.
Those Hut Point days WJ, p. 180.
Today has been the Journal, 23 April 1911.
The sun rose for ibid.
regular hat racks FD, The Quiet Land, p. 95.
I feel very unsettled Journal, 24 April 1911.
Every morning now there ibid., 25 April 1911.
Wonder if any of Silas, p. 170.
showed merely a tourist’s Journal, 9 May 1911.
Science – the rock foundation SLE, 9 May 1911.
It will be a HB to KS, 27 October 1911, Kennet Papers.
Scott took the British Priestley, ‘The Polar Expedition’.
If we had a Amundsen, p. 108.
The fact of the FD, Antarctica: The Story of a Continent , 1959, p. 183.
He was eager to WJ, p. 204.
a subtle character, full ibid., p. 205.
nightmare Draft material, WJ.
Temperamentally . . . was a weak WJ, p. 206.
a lazy, posing fellow SLE, 6 January 1911 [1968 facsimile edition].
Meares hates exercise ibid., 17 March 1911.
cocksureness ibid., 3 June 1911.
a young man whose ibid., 13 July 1911.
there used to be . . . and the worst was Noted by Caroline Oates, 28 April 1913, private collection.
Captain Scott would be Noted by Caroline Oates, 27 April 1913, private collection.
not in the least FD, The Quiet Land, p. 125.
He is certainly a George Simpson, Diary, 11 June 1911.
I got badly ragged Journal, 25 April 1911.
Cape Crozier is a EW, National Antarctic Expedition 1901–1904: Natural History II: Zoology, 1907, p. 31.
The possibility that we ibid.
a bad needle about Journal, 19 June 1911.
a good bust out ibid., 21 June 1911.
O Blubber Lamp! O The South Polar Times III (1911), Part I, facsimile edition, 1914.
The funniest part now . . . it was very funny Journal, 22 June 1911.
Chapter 6: Even with God
on the weirdest bird’s WJ, p. 240.
This winter travel is SLE, 27 June 1911.
a regular snorter EW to Oriana Wilson, in Seaver, Wilson, p. 242.
I was a fool WJ, p. 241.
must be sure not Journal, 27 June 1911.
It does not look ibid., 30 June 1911.
They talk of chattering WJ, p. 246.
a mass of the ibid., p. 245.
Generally we steered by WJ, p. 245.
a terrible day. I Journal, 2 July 1911.
it was difficult not . . . You’ve got it in WJ, p. 247.
The day lives in ibid., p. 253.
I had to keep EW, Diary, 4 July 1911.
Bill had a tremendous WJ, p. 255.
Scott will never forgive . . . it is a principle WJ, pp. 255–6.
the temperature was down ACG to ECG, 28 September 1911 & following days, private collection.
or girls WJ, p. 247.
There is something after Journal, 7 July 1911.
If we had been WJ, p. 259.
My nerves were about Journal, 14 July 1911.
I for one had WJ, p. 242.
Do things slowly, always ibid., p. 246.
Always patient, self-possessed ibid.
I think we are ibid.
I was quite sure ibid., p. 254.
It is wonderful how Journal, 15 July 1911.
were a Sunday school WJ, p. 259.
After indescribable effort and ibid., p. 274.
Cherry, you must learn ibid. , p. 277.
we were already beginning ibid., p. 278.
I said my prayers Journal, 3 August 1911. Cherry wrote up most of the Crozier journey on his return to the hut.
I might have speculated . . . The road to Hell WJ , p. 286.
Yes, comfortable warm reader ibid., p. 287.
Our lives had been ibid., p. 289.
as if I should . . . I felt a brute ibid., p. 292.
a masterpiece George Simpson, in Seaver, Bowers, p. 209.
He was up and WJ, pp. 283–4.
We’re all right . . . Despite the fact that ibid. , p. 284.
I think he thought HB, ‘Account of Winter Journey, etc.’, p. 11.
The day’s march was WJ, p. 302.
Antarctic exploration is seldom WJ, p. 304.
I saw self-sacrifice ibid., p. 302.
In civilisation, men are ibid., p. 252.
I think we reached ibid., p. 279.
I was incapacitated for EW, ‘The Winter Journey to Cape Crozier’, in SLE
II, p. 42.
few doubts and no WJ, p. 214.
He made life look Introduction to Seaver, Bowers, p. xvi.
Spread out well and WJ, p. 304.
By Jove! Here is ibid.
Cherry staggered in looking Taylor, With Scott, p. 285.
You know, this is WJ, p. 311.
I managed to keep . . . We slept ten thousand ibid.
We are looked upon ibid.
The result of this SLE, 2 August 1911.
I don’t know . . . Probably Lashly would have WJ, p. 239.
his spirit never wavered SLE, 2 August 1911.
Wilson considers the journey Tryggve Gran, The Norwegian with Scott, 1984, p. 114.
We had attempted too EW, ‘The Winter Journey’, in SLE II, p. 52.
the response of the This phrase appealed immensely to Cherry: it went to the heart of his beliefs. It was coined by Seaver in The Faith of Edward Wilson, 1948, p. 10.
I’ll swear there was WJ, p. 302.
a very eventful day Gran, p. 111.
Tempers are beginning to FD, The Quiet Land, p. 117.
The marvellous part of ibid., p. 125.
As I get more . . . Ever since we came Journal, 10 August 1911.
that really horrible ibid., 11 August 1911.
We felt like boys Ponting, p. 159.
It seems very far SLE, 18 August 1911.
Poor Cherry perspired over SLE, 10 September 1911.
It’s you or me Annotated journal [April 1911].
the cheerful and lovable WJ, p. 222.
I intended Oates to SLE, 22 October 1911 [1968 facsimile edition].
I personally don’t see LO to Caroline Oates, 23 November 1910.
great string of rotten in Seaver, Wilson, p. 263.
He is spoken to ibid.
I dislike Scott intensely LO to Caroline Oates, 24 October 1911.
more than extra mouldy Journal, 24 September 1911.
to appeal to the ACG to ECG, 28 September 1911 & following days, private collection.
worried and unhappy WJ, p. 319.
I can’t say I William Lashly, Diary (‘Southern Journey, Motors’), 1 November 1911.
It reminded me of SLE, 2 November 1911.
At the back of WJ, pp. 331–2.
My personal impression of ibid., p. 333.
it was about as HB, Diary, 13 November 1911.
a prolonged Council of . . . serio-comic WJ, p. 338.
I go all the Journal, 29 November 1911.
touch and go SLE, 23 November 1911.
Gallant little Michael Journal, 4 December 1911.
Oh! but this is SLE, 6 December 1911.
a perfect piece of EW, Diary, 8 December 1911.
This morning was just Journal, 17 December 1911.
though both put their SLE, 14 December 1911.