illuminator newsletter #21
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12 March 2023
A rare exhibition opportunity: two Franklin Expedition daguerreotypes have left SPRI and travelled to Oxford’s Bodleian Library, on display til May 7th.
https://www.illuminator.blog/p/dags-at-oxford.html
RECENTLY
6 March 2023
Portsmouth is trying to raise money to keep a Franklin Search flag in the UK (Kellett’s, from 1852). Bonus detail: according to Director General Dominic Tweddle, Erebus & Terror shipwreck artifacts are coming to Portsmouth.
https://www.nmrn.org.uk/news/Kelletts-sledge-flag-urgent-appeal
4 March 2023
The missing gravestone of Franklin searcher John Powles Cheyne has been found — in the woods, miles from where it should be. A family and reporter in Halifax, Nova Scotia have the story.
Article 1:
Article 2, with Cheyne gravestone photo:
4 March 2023
Dave Woodman is preparing a new book (and, this new website).
https://www.aglooka.ca/upcoming-new-book-the-accidental-explorer/
3 January 2023
The 1842 Harry Goodsir portrait: at some point St. Andrews uploaded significantly better resolution. It wipes away the last bit of computer pixels from his face, showing the original photography grain. [My edit here is darkened only—nothing fancy/freaky.]
https://twitter.com/illuminatorblog/status/1610334014631452675