Day: November 16, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: “My ideal of an Arctic explorer”

Removed from Houghton’s copy of Sir William Edward Parry’s Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Performed in the Years 1819-20 is a clutch of letters and other papers tracing differing methods of polar exploration in the nineteenth century. First, a note from Sir George…