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Title:
Expedition journals of Sir Albert Hastings Markham
Scope & Content:
Journals written by Sir Albert Hastings Markham, documenting: his polar reconnaissances in the Arctic and the Kara Sea, including a whaling voyage (Add MS 89230/1); his survey of the conditions in the Hudson Bay for the Canadian Government (Add MS 89230/4); his participation in the British Arcti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873-1904
Extent:
17 volumes, plus three photographs

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Title:
Expedition journals: Royal Navy
Scope & Content:
Journals kept by Sir Albert Hastings Markham during his time as an officer in the Royal Navy, comprising: Four volumes serving on the Pacific Station in HMS Triumph, from 1879-1882. Two volumes commanding the torpedo school HMS Vernon, from 1882-1886. Two volumes commanding HMS Active and its tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1904
Extent:
11 volumes plus 1 file

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Title:
Expedition journals: Arctic regions and the Kara Sea
Scope & Content:
Three journals by Captain Albert Hastings Markham, written during voyages in the Arctic and the Kara sea [Karskoye More] in 1873, 1878 and 1879.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873-1879
Extent:
3 volumes

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Title:
Expedition journals: British Arctic Expedition
Scope & Content:
Autograph journals kept by Commander Albert Hasting Markham, Captain of HMS Alert and second-in-command of the British Arctic Expedition. The journals document Markham's time on the Alert, and record the sledging journey during which he obtained the record of farthest North. The journals conta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1876
Extent:
2 volumes plus 3 photographs

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Title:
Expedition journal: Hudson's Bay
Scope & Content:
Markham's manuscript journal of his journey on board the Alert, and subsequent journey from York Factory to Winnipeg via canoe. The Alert was surveying Hudson's Bay on behalf of the Government of Canada, to establish whether the Hudson Strait was open to navigation for a sufficiently long period...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886
Extent:
1 volume, plus numerous inserts (183 folios)

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Title:
Arctic Expedition: Volume two
Scope & Content:
Second volume of the journal kept by Markham during the British Arctic Expedition 1875-76, as Captain of HMS Alert and second-in-command under Sir George Nares on the Discovery. The volume opens with Markham's sledging journals for 25 September to 14 October 1875, 3 April to 2 June 1876 (the '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

7. Add MS 89230/2/1

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Title:
Arctic Expedition: Volume one
Scope & Content:
First volume of the journal kept by Markham during the British Arctic Expedition 1875-76, as Captain of HMS Alert and second-in-command under Sir George Nares on the Discovery. This volume opens in Portsmouth on Saturday 29 May 1875, and concludes 24 July 1876. It includes a description of the f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 volume (344 folios)

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Title:
Photograph: HMS Alert at Cape Beechey
Scope & Content:
Albumen print, captured at Latitude 81 Degree 48" by George White, Assistant Engineer on the Alert, and Thomas Mitchell, Paymaster of the Discovery.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1876
Extent:
1 albumen print

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Title:
Commander in Chief at the Nore
Scope & Content:
Vice-Admiral Albert Markham's journal of his time as Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, the first entry dated November 1901 and closing on 17 August 1902. The journal contains detailed entries describing Markham's daily activities, naval manoeuvres and gunnery practice, visits to ports and naval e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1901-Aug 1902
Extent:
1 volume, plus 5 folios

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Title:
HMS Trafalgar Volume One
Scope & Content:
Volumes 1 to 3 of Markham's journal documenting his time as Rear Admiral and second-in-command in the Mediterranean. Markham's flagship was the Trafalgar, but at various points between 1892 -1893 he transferred to the Phaeton, the Australia and the Nile. Markham was made Rear Admiral in January ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1892-Jan 1893
Extent:
1 volume, plus 10 folios