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(NORTH POLE.) (Wilkins, Sir Hubert.) Small archive of material related to the Wilkins Ellsworth Expedition, all to Hearst correspondent William Hillman, including a typed prospectus detailing the scientific objective of the Polar expedition with a hand-drawn illustration of the earth's crust, telegraphs from Wilkins while at sea or in Bergen, contemporary copies of radio transmissions to Wilkins during the expedition, an Autograph Letter Signed by Harald Sverdrup forwarding his account of the expedition [not present], a Typed Letter Signed by Wilkins written the day of his arrival back in port after the failure of the attempt to cross the North Pole in his submarine the Nautilus. In all, 12 items. Format and condition vary. Vp, 1931
An interesting archive relating Wilkins's failed 1931 attempt to cross the Arctic Ocean in a submarine in order to determine the depth at the North Pole. Beset by mechanical failures to his U.S. Navy O-12 submarine, which he renamed the Nautilus, Wilkins reached only as far North as 82° 15'. Nevertheless, the scientific findings of the brief expedition on currents and ice movement proved to be of some value. A successful polar submarine expedition did not occur until 1959. Besides the copy of the original prospectus, this archive includes a few notable items, including a series of telegraphs and replies between Wilkins and William Randolph Hearst (the chief benefactor of the expedition), written at the start of the expedition, with Wilkins expressing concern and Hearst urging him to turn back.
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