Catalogue description H R Mill bequest

A large collection of general correspondence received by Mill covering polar exploration in both the Arctic and Antarctic, general publishing on scientific and polar matters. The correspondence is interspersed with mention of the war, personal news etc. Many of the writers are scientists and explorers. Much of the collection comprises of correspondence relating to Mills biographical work on Ernest Shackleton, Mill wrote the first biography at the request of Shackleton’s widow Emily.

Split into 154 series the correspondence was arranged predominantly alphabetically and then within that sorting chronologically. At the time of listing some material was removed from the collection and filed amongst the SPRI working files [the Institutes archive], where this material has been found it has been returned to the manuscript collection and given the next free number in the collections

MS 367 H R Mill gift

Mill, Hugh Robert

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bequest

not accuring

Rejoice My Heart by Michael H Rosove, Adelie Books, Santa Monica, California2007

• Antarctic expeditions
• publishing
• biographies
• scientific research
• war

Published finding aid

Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England by Clive Holland

London and New York, Garland Publishing, ISBN 0 8240 9394 1

A collection of letters written to Hugh Robert Mill on polar, publishing and scientific matters over a period of years and retained by him.