APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



A LETTER TO VISCOUNT PALMEESTON, K.G., &c., 

 FEOM LADY FEANKLIN. 



My Lord, go, Pall Mali, December 2, 1856. 



I trust I may be permitted, as the widow of 

 Sir Jolm Franklin, to draw the attention of Her 

 Jlajesty's Government to the unsettled state of a 

 question which a few months ago was under their con- 

 sideration, and to esi^ress a well-grounded hope that 

 a final effort may be made to ascertain the fate and 

 recover the remains of my husband's expedition. 



Your Lordship will allow me to remind you that a 

 ]\[emorial* with this objecf in view (of which I enclose 

 a printed copy) was early in June last presented to, and 

 kindly received by you. It had been signed within 

 forty-eight hours by all the leading men of science then 

 in London who had an opportunity of seeing it, and 

 might have received an indefinite augmentation of 

 worthy names had not the urgency of the question for- 

 bidden delay. To the above names were appended 

 those of the Arctic officers who had been personally 

 engaged in the search, and who, though absent, were 

 known to be favourable to another effort for its com- 

 pletior And though that united application obtained 

 no immediate result, it was felt, and by no one more 

 btrongly than myself, that it never could be utterly 

 wasted. 



* See Appendix II. 



