Lady Franklin Visits the Pacific Northwest. Being Extracts from the Letters of Miss Sophia Cracroft...
first edition
1974 · Victoria, British Columbia
by Cracroft, Sophia
Victoria, British Columbia: Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1974 First edition. Memoir No. XI of the Provincial Archives. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Dorothy Blakey Smith. xxviii, 157pp. Eight photographs, index. Gilt-lettered light brown cloth. A very fine copy. Letters and journal kept by Sophia Cracroft, Lady Jane Franklin's niece by marriage, which narrates their visit to Sitka February to April, 1861 and April to July, 1870. Sophia and Lady Franklin apparently made the journey in hopes of discovering any of Sir John Franklin's diaries, journals or other personal papers.. (Inventory #: 6743)