DEDICATION. 



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My dear Lady Franklin, 



There is no one to whom I could with so much 

 propriety or willingness dedicate my Journal as to you. 

 For you it was originally written, and to please you it now 

 appears in print. 



To our mutual friend, Sherard Osborn, I am greatly 

 obliged for his kindness in seeing it through the press — 

 a labour I could not have settled down to so soon after 

 my return ; and also for pointing out some omissions and 

 technicalities which would have rendered parts of it unin- 

 telligible to an ordinary reader. These kind hints have 

 been but partially attended to, and, as time presses, it 

 appears with the mass of its original imperfections, as when 

 you read it in manuscript. Such as it is, however, it affords 

 me this valued opportunity of assuring you of the real 

 gratification I feel in having been instrumental in accom- 

 plishing an object so dear to you. To your devotion and 

 self-sacrifice the world is indebted for the deeply interesting 

 revelation unfolded by the voyage of the ' Fox.' 



Believe me to be, 



With sincere respect, most faithfully yours, 



F. L. M'CLINTOCK. 



London, 24th Nov. 1859. 



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