An interesting archive of sketches, photographs and ephemera...

Estimate

£800 - £1,000

An interesting archive of sketches, photographs and ephemera relating to Royal Navy Assistant Surgeon Charles Lennox Cunningham (1837-1916): including a scrap book of manuscript testimonials including HMS Cambridge and HMS Spitfire, an Admiralty indenture acknowledging serving aboard any fleet vessel, also a scrap book of newspaper cuttings relating to lectures and articles written by C L Cunningham, photographs aboard various vessels and sketches of Arctic and African expeditions, also a letter confirming his appointment as correspondent for the 'The Lancet', and related sketches, portrait photographs etc. *Notes- Little is known of Charles Lennox Cunningham's early life and Royal Navy career, however newspaper cuttings within the archive indicate that he serve as ship's surgeon on both the 'Queen' and 'Lady Franklin' during one of the five search expeditions sponsored by Lady Franklin for her late husband's Expedition to find the Northwest Passage. After retiring from the Royal Navy, Cunningham continued to served aboard various vessels travelling several times around the world giving lectures on his travels in a series called 'Notes on Travel', He was also at one point Vice President of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales and worked as an assistant surgeon for both the Queensland Government Offices and British Guiana. Having undertaken several gold surveying Expeditions to Ashanti he became a correspondent for 'The Lancet', providing both reports and sketches for the Egyptian Campaign 1882-89.