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British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 Harry DICKASON (1885-1943). A collection of autograph manuscript journals, autograph notes and copies, photographs and sketches relating to the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, Terra Nova , Cape Adare and Evans Coves, 1 June 1910 - 12 February 1913, and comprising: Autograph manuscript journal signed ('H. Dickason, Terra Nova R.Y.S., British Antarctic Expedition, June 1910-') a continuous narrative from Terra Nova's departure from New Zealand until just before the Northern Party's departure from Cape Adare, 26 November 1910 - 31 December 1911, illustrated with FIVE PHOTOGRAPHS BY RAYMOND PRIESTLEY, showing five members of the Northern Party at Cape Adare (excluding Priestley), 'Percy, our pet penguin', the hut at Cape Adare 'nearing completion. On the right can be seen Borchgrevink's hut in which we are at present living', 'Scene in Robertson Bay after ice blown out', 'Our loaded sledge. It shows the twelve foot sledge, already packed, on the top of the iron runner sledge ready for the trip to the West', and ONE PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE ABBOTT, showing Campbell, Dickason and Priestley at 'A halt for lunch. The Primus being used to make a drink of cocoa. Scene on the Western trip', various sizes, 48 x 96mm - 80 x 116mm., also MENU CARD PRINTED BY VICTOR CAMPBELL FOR THE MID WINTER'S DAY DINNER AT CAPE ADARE, 22 JUNE 1911, AND SIGNED BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE NORTHERN PARTY, 125 x 88mm., all mounted and tipped in (one photograph detached), and a sketch by Dickason of 'A group of bergs off Cape Adare, August 20th 1911', 78 x 262mm., tipped in, the journal 78 pages, folio , blanks (occasional light foxing), original boards (rubbed); Autograph manuscript journal, a fair copy, describing the Northern Party's sledging expeditions at Evans Coves, 8 January - 27 January 1912, autograph title 'H. Dickason. British Antarctic Expedition. 1910-', 8½ pages, 4to (minor stains to outer margin of title), original cloth by Evans Hallewell & Co., Ludgate Hill, London (extremities rubbed, light staining, blank leaves extracted); Autograph manuscript journals describing the outward voyage on Terra Nova , 1 June - 5 August 1910, the discovery of Hanson's grave and the wait for the arrival of Terra Nova at Cape Adare, 27 [December] and 1-3 January 1912, and the homeward voyage of the expedition, 19 January - 12 February 1913, with copies of extracts from Frank Browning's sledging diary describing the spring sledging at Cape Adare, 8-12 September and 4-13 October 1911, altogether 25½ pages, 4to , on loose sheets of lined paper (occasional soiling and tears); together with five sketches of ice-bergs, a sketch-map, a poem 'Here's to the blizzard of -17', 16 lines, two other leaves of manuscript notes, and a photograph of Dickason in 1920, together 8 pages, various sizes ; [ with ] an autograph letter signed ('Rings') by Frank Browning to 'Dick and Tiny' [Dickason and Abbott], 9 October 1911, left at a depot during the spring sledging at Cape Adare, on brown paper, integral address panel ('Harry Dickason, Cave Point, Victoria Land'), 2 pages, 4to (creased, two small tears). Provenance . Harry Dickason; and by descent. AN APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED JOURNAL OF SCOTT'S NORTHERN PARTY, describing the first half of the outward journey to just beyond South Trinidad, the voyage from Lyttelton to Cape Evans, the disembarkation of the main expedition, the separate establishment of the Northern Party at Cape Adare, the winter at the hut, and the spring and summer sledging around Cape Adare, as well as the explorations at Evans Coves, though without any description of the Ice Cave episode at Inexpressible Island or the subsequent season at Cape Evans. Dickason's account is in straightforward seaman's style, keeping a record of work done, weather conditions, observations and distances, the rigours of expedition work varied with the simple pleasures of a game of bezique, a Sunday walk, singing and gramophone conc