Letter to S.S. McClure, 189[2].

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Letter to S.S. McClure, 189[2].

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Reade proposes writing an article on the West Point days of Arctic explorer Frederick Schwatka, "especially as a comic artist." With the letter is a clipping is an article descibing Schwatka's death from an overdose of laudanum.

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Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892

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Frederick Schwatka. Explorer, born in Galena, Ill., where he later worked at printing. Attended Willamette University. Graduated from West Point, held army posts, while studying law and medicine. Became interested in exploration and convinced the American Geographical Society to back an attempt to discover the fate of the expedition of Sir John Franklin to the Arctic, thirty years earlier. With William Gilder led a two-year search, successfully completed in 1880. Published books on ...

McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Journalist, writer of books for boys. From the description of S.S. McClure check to James Barnes, 1898 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795304 American publisher. From the description of Letter to Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1892 October 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51846140 ...

Reade, Philip, fl. 1892.

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Captain, 3rd U.S. Infantry; Army recruiter stationed in Springfield, Ill. From the description of Letter to S.S. McClure, 189[2]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50734499 ...