The Voyages Of The "Morning". Signed Presentation Copy With Letter Doorly, Gerald S. Antarctic

Signed presentation copy from Doorly to Dot Morton with an ALS. "Dot Morton Signed with the affection of your old friend Gerald S. Doorly 1924". Dot has signed the front free endpaper M.A. Morton. With a single sheet note paper with the crest of the Commercial Travellers Club Melbourne, being a memo to Mab. Morton signed by Doorly, dated 1943. Rosove 96.A2; Rosove identifies this Murray edition as a take over of the first edition after the death of Reginald Smith and states that the title leaf is a cancel. The "Memo Mab Morton" goes "Sorry to miss you and sorry I couldn't get the original edition with the coloured prints. However it's all here except the bird paintings. All the best for Xmas & New Year 1843. Gerald S. Doorly". Doorly was a junior officer on board the two voyages of the Morning, the relief ship for the Discovery expedition. As Colbeck, the ship's captain, did not write an account, Doorly's book is the main eyewitness record. It was published some 10 years later as expedition second-in-charge Evans was going to co-write the account with Doorly but was unable to find time to do so. 8vo, xx, 224pp, frontispiece and 16 plates, 1 folding map, 6 pages of music. Publisher's pictorial cloth with image of penguin and chick on upper cover. Spine sunned, light foxing.