Autograph letter signed "John Barrow", Admiralty, 1 December 1826: "I send you the chapter as you have desired, on which I have no remark to make. Excepting the experiments of the Philosophical Doctor, the chapter is more argumentative than the rest, but at the same time full of character traits." Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty for forty years, was the driving force behind British Arctic exploration – the Northwest Passage voyages of Parry, Ross and Franklin – and founder of the Royal Geographical Society. Condition: folds, light toning.
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