Autograph Diary

Item author: Frank V Browning
Item date: 1910-1911
Grant Value: 200
Item cost pre-decimal: 400
Item date acquired: 1969
Item institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Petty Officer Browning kept a diary during Captain Scotts second Antarctic expedition, recording every day events on board ship. He was part of the Northern party who passed the winter at Cape Adare. The diary ends before they had to pass another winter in an ice cave with very scanty food

Item Provenance
Sothebys May 1969, Lot 434