Continued from the last post. [All I can say is if I don’t get employed I shall get married — and perhaps shall if I do. If any decent lady will have me. and clean. as I heard a man say the other day —] This was also quoted in the Battersby but my transcription […]

(Excerpts posted as an “educational work” in accordance with Wiley Digital Archives’ terms of service.) These excerpts are all from his letters to his friend John Barrow (son of Sir John Barrow), over a period of time spanning from 1839 on the Ganges to July 1845 at Disko on the Erebus. The very first one starts off with […]