Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American explorer (1856–1920) best known for his claim as the first man to reach the North Pole; whether his expedition actually reached the target destination remains a long-argued point of history. Signed and hand-corrected typed partial manuscript, one page, 8 x 10, designated at the top as page 7, and signed at the conclusion in fountain pen, “R. E. Peary.” Text reads, in full: “boat, a piece of ice about the size of a small house came rushing at the ship, and we just barely succeeded in pulling the boat under the Erik’s stern in time to escape being smashed like an egg-shell against her side. The Erik herself groaned and rocked with the blow. After that it was the liveliest kind of a race among the whirling ice cakes for the shore. When an hour later we returned to the ship, we dragged the boat all the way over the ice, now densely packed together. The next day with the changing tide we pushed and butted our way into a tiny cove south of Erik Head, where close in shore there was a bit of open water. There we began landing our cargo. There was no possible chance to get farther north, and every one on board, except myself, was glad of it.” Peary has made several ink and pencil corrections to the page, adding several words, underlining a couple and noting paragraphs. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, uniform light toning, and scattered edge wear and small tears. This manuscript page recounts the climatic end of Peary’s 1901 arctic expedition when, as noted, “a piece of ice about the size of a small house came rushing at the ship” and a growing abundance of icebergs forced the explorer—and grateful crew—to abandon the voyage “to get farther north.” He would—at least according to the explorer—finally reach the geographic North Pole in 1909. The article appeared in a 1905 issue of Pall Magazine. An incredibly scarce piece of written history, told by the man who was there.
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