xxiv PrtUmiuary Chapter. 



Full evidence is thus fouiul in Hall's papers, especially in that, 

 ])rivate coiTespondence which best discloses impulses and purposes, 

 that his "Kescue and Research" was the impulse not of a humane 

 feeling only, Ijut of such feeling exercised towards those whom he con- 

 sidered heroes in their objects as well as in their sufferings. It grew 

 (.lit of his thuuuhts of men who had been fighting nature for objects 

 which had enlisted very noble minds; — enticing fiom his home a 

 Franklin for the fourth time, and even in his sixtieth year. Hall's own 

 desire for participation in the work of search was quickened by the 

 fact that every Relief Expedition except McClintock's had erred in its 

 line of search, until "the pursuit was now ended," as John Barrow 

 and others wrote him, " where it should have been begun." It does 

 not seem so strange, then, that he should at times have spoken of him- 

 self as " called" to do something in the work of relief on which no one 

 else was entering. 



Tn Li'o back to his first appeal, issued for him to the citizens of 

 Cincinnati in ixdo, is to cite what in one form or another disclosed his 

 feelings throughout the whole remainder of his life. 



Tlic appeal read as ff>llows : 



rl This is ro m!:mokialize all lovers of Man and of Geogra- 



^"-^ lapliy. History, and Science to co-operate by all methods and 



iiMMii-^ ill ilicir 1 lower, to facilitate and assist onr fellow coimtry- 

 iiiaii. Chailes Francis Hall of Cincinnati, Oliio, in tlie formation 

 "f. and lilting nut an American Expedition, in search of survivors 

 • 'I' Sir .l<iiin I raiiUlin's Exploring party, consisting of 138 per- 

 -niis. (inly L'7 (»r Nvlioiii are known to he dead. Secondly, for 

 satisra(l<iiily settling and coni]»lcting the history of the last 



Franklin ExiKMlition : and thirdly, to promote and benefit the cause of Geogra- 



pliy, Navigation, Natural lli.story and Science. 



