Summary: | Correspondence attempting to secure a ship for the Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition II. Includes a paper outlining the objectives of the expedition, an article from The New York Times, the paper "Problems Arising from the Comparison of the Surveys Based on Ellsworth's and Wilkin's Flights, with Those of the B.G.L.E.," a paper "condensed from two articles published by the American Geographical Society." in the Geographical Review regarding the topographical and cartographical results of the Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Flight of 1935, and a copy of The New York Times article about Mary Louise Ellsworth's gift of Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Man" to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
|