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Sale 5657
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Estimate$800 – $1,200
London, May 20, 1911. One sheet folded to make four pages, 8 x 5 in. (203 x 127 mm). Autograph letter on Crown Chambers stationery, signed by Shackleton ("E.H. Shackleton") to Dorothy Delmar Morgan (née Locker-Lampson), declining an invitation, "Many thanks for yours: Alas I am engaged right ahead/for a long time otherwise I would have been/delighted to accept. Teetotal meals do not frighten me considering that I was for a/period of 32 years a teetotaler myself..." Light dampwrinkling; residue along rear edge from old mount.
Sotheby's, London, English Literature, History, Science, Childrens Books And Illustrations, July 9, 2018, Lot 480.
![[Travel & Exploration] Shackleton, Ernest Autograph Letter, signed](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/38911dbc-131c-4665-b6e9-2a6952870f83?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Travel & Exploration] Shackleton, Ernest Autograph Letter, signed](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/aa127b43-c16a-4782-9e14-3aeb944c4405?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)