Fulford (Reginald Baldwin) Ephemera relating to the life of Reginald Fulford, 1877-87 (sm. qty).

Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86) Ephemera relating to the life of Reginald Fulford, including: 3 letters (2 addressed to Fulford", and 1 from L.A. Beaumont to Fulford's father on the death of his son), chromolithographed Christmas card "The N. Pole", 2 Japanese style watercolour Christmas Cards, engraved card "Pickwickian menu" with manuscript insertions, copper plate for Fulford's cards and numerous printed cards, notebook of Katharine Jane Fulford (1½pp. in pencil only), 3 photographs of Fulford (1 creased) etc., 1877-87 (sm. qty).

⁂ Includes an Autograph Letter signed from Lewis Anthony Beaumont (senior lieutenant of HMS Discovery 1875-76, 1847-1922), on the death of Reginald Fulford in Hong Kong in 1886, "we had been much together towards the end of our stay in the Arctic, and I cannot even now keep regretting the way in which his services & claims were persistently set aside for some new and more favoured candidate, though the last 3 or 4 times I brought his name prominently to the front."

Beaumont commanded a sledging party on a journey to explore the north coast of Greenland, reaching Sherard Osborn Fjord on the Lioncoln Sea and turning back on 22 May 1876.