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Lot 119
A Cary refracting brass telescope, the 43’ tube inscribed ‘This telescope was lent by Lord Wrottesley to Captain McClintock R N and was used by him in his Arctic Voyage of 1857-9 in search of the remains of Sir John Franklin’s last Expedition’, 3’ diameter tube with rack and pinion focussing and dust cap contained in a mahogany box with three tubes and three interchangeable eyepieces and a pair of shaped handles, box cracked, lacking tripod and attachments, marked ‘CARY, London’ Provenance: Bought by the vendor’s father at a sale of the Wrottesley Estate in the 1950s / 60s. In the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, there is a letter (draft) to John Wrottesley (2nd baron), 6th June 1857 from Lady Jane Franklin to present Leopold McClintock at Levee (MS 248/226; D FRANKLIN JANE). Sir John Franklin set sail for the North West Passage on 19th May 1845 in two ships, HMS Erberus and HMS Terror, with 134 officers and men and with three years provisions. After entering Lancaster Sound, the eastern gateway to the North West Passage, both ships disappeared. After the failure of government sponsored search expeditions, the Admiralty withdrew financial support and Franklin’s widow, Lady Jane Franklin, organised a search expedition for her husband’s remains under Captain Francis Leopold McClintock in the 185 ton steam yacht Fox, which she purchased for £2000. On 18th June, Captain McClintock was presented to the Queen by Lord Wrottseley, President of the Royal Society at Levee. The Fox expedition succeeded in finding a number of relics and the only surviving document that told of Franklin’s death on 11th June 1847. See Lentz, John W, ‘The Fox Expedition in Search of Franklin: A Documentary Trail’, Arctic, vol. 56 No 2 (June 2003), pp.175-184, The Arctic Institute of North America
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