Dr John Rae: letter to the Admiralty

• Reference:GB 241 D1/261
• Dates of Creation:1854-1993
• Name of Creator:
  Troup, James A (1960-1995), Local historian
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  0.01 Linear Metres

• Scope and Content

  Typescript "Clestrain in Orphir - John Rae's Boyhood Home", Article by James Troup. To be published in next edition of Review of Scottish Culture. [Photocopy] Letter from Dr John Rae, Stromness, to Mr Barron. Barron appears to have been an Admiralty official. Reference to reward and whether or not he is to receive it; his intention of going to the Crimea in February - "if I can be of any use there - I should like to see for myself what roughing it as a soldier resembles" ; compares current weather in Orkney with an autumn in Hudson's Bay ; reference to his disagreement with Dickens published in recent editions of Household Words regarding some of the information brought back by him about the fate of Franklin."

• Related Material

  Original of Rae's letter is in the British Library, ref. Add Mss 35308.