Correspondence with Barroir <nit/ others. 1 1 



witli this donation, he entered into a convs])ondenco \\\\\\ .Mi\ .Iclm 

 Barrow, son of Sir John Barrow who has l)een so jiistl\- st>led the 

 Father of Modern Arctic Enterprise, witli Commander A. li. Hcclicr, 

 R N., of the Admiralty, and with Mr. C. R. Markham, tlien, as now, 

 one of the Secretaries of tlie Royal Geographical Societ}-, makiiin- 

 close inquiries in regard to such points in Frobisher's ]nst()r\- as >\ ci-e 

 inaccessible to him, the manuscripts to be consulted being found onU- 

 in the British Museum. 



His letters are in evidence of his earnest desire to possess him- 

 self of every fact in the history. The correspondence contains geo- 

 graphical notes of intrinsic value, and shows that his claims as a 

 discoverer were promptly admitted on the transparent consistency of 

 the details given in his letter before the reception of his charts and 

 relics. 



Commander Becher had published the results of his own investi- 

 gations of Frobisher's voyages in an elaborate paper in the Journal of 

 the Royal Greographical Society (vol. 12, 1842). On receiving Hall's 

 letter to Barrow, he wrote to Hall : ''I have no douht of your relics 

 being those left by Frobisher's party. Warwicke Island and Sound 

 were the principal resort of the voyagers. I j^erceive that your lati- 

 tude and mine of Queen Elizabeth's Foreland are pretty near each 

 other " 



This correspondence produced an incidental result which lias 

 proved valuable to geograph}^ and to the libraries of our da}'. Cap- 

 tain Becher's purpose expressed in his letter to Hall, to urge upon the 

 Hakluyt Society the issuing of a worthy reprint of Frobisher's jour- 

 nals, accorded with the general sentiment expressed by the editor ot the 



