Catalogue description Bible presented to Shackleton by Queen Alexandra in July 1914. Lacks fly-leaf inscribed...

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Details of EHS/11
Reference: EHS/11
Description:

Bible presented to Shackleton by Queen Alexandra in July 1914. Lacks fly-leaf inscribed by Queen Alexandra and pp.551-556 & pp. 569-570 (These pages are in the possession of the Shackleton family, ????). The Bible was discarded by Shackleton: who retained the missing pages. J. E. McLeod picked up and kept the Bible, which he gave to a Mrs McLean. It was donated to the RGS by Commander Burley at the RGS meeting of 1st Nov. 1971.
Date: 1914
Held by: Royal Geographical Society, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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