Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913--Wright, Sir Charles Seymour "Silas".

covering the voyage of the Terra Nova from shortly before its arrival at Melbourne, continuing south into the Antarctic Ocean, through pack-ice, and ending shortly before disembarkation at Cape Evans, describing members of the expedition ("...Oates "the soldier" or "spurs". An expert on dogs & ponies, also with Atkinson on methods of annoying "No. I"..."), activities on board ("...Albatross catching has also been rather fun, though our bag to date is one solitary one...") including his attempts to photograph whales and other more successful photographic experiments ("...Ponting got some lovely telephotos of a berg only 3/4 mile off..."), and latterly providing a vivid impression of the Antarctic Ocean with its freezing temperatures ("...now as the spray falls on deck it at once freezes...") and severe storms ("...heavy seas breaking over loosening more cases & sending them scudding around between our legs. The water was almost continually over our knees & occasionally took us off our feet...") as the ship pushed its way slowly through pack-ice ("...It is wonderful how the old tub stands the butting into the floes..."), with his experiences of midnight sun, snow blindness, seal meat, and encounters with Adelie Penguins ("...They are most clumsy birds out of the water & are continually falling over themselves as they walk on the floes, in which case they usually continue on their tummies at much greater speed than on their feet..."), with occasional line-drawings and diagrams, 42 pages, 8vo, text on rectos only, lined, perforated notepaper removed from notebook, paginated (pp.32-37, 40-70, 72-76), before 11 October to 30 December 1910, with photocopies of two additional pages, 24 leaves torn with loss of about half of each leaf

C.S. Wright, Silas: the Antarctic Diaries and Memoirs of Charles S. Wright (Columbus, Ohio, 1993)

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a detailed record of the opening months of scott's final expedition. Charles Seymour Wright (1887-1975), a young Canadian Cambridge graduate described by Scott as "a charmingly simple straightforward young man with intelligence of a high order", was the expedition's glaciologist and physicist. He was part of Scott's initial Main Party, travelled with him as far as the Beardmore Glacier, and as part of the relief expedition was the first to find Scott's tent on 11 November 1912. Although these pages take the form of a diary they were actually sent as letters to his father; Wright himself retained carbon copies, from which they were published in 1993. His papers are now held by the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.