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OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELLESMERE LAND EXPEDITION, 1934.

HAMPTON COURT PALACE.
CONFIDENTIAL.

MIDDLESEX.

Enclosure.

19th March 1936.

Dear Lord Tweedsmuir,

It was very kind of you to take up the
matter of Robert Bentham's expedition. It now seems
that there are good prospects of his getting financial
support in England, and I understand that the Royal
Geographical Society have voted him £100, and the Royal
Society £200.

In the meanwhile, I am enclosing some plans
which I have worked out together with other members of
the recent expedition, for completing the work which we
began in Northern Ellesmere Land. They are the outcome
of the conclusions which we formed during our last
trip, and I have taken into consideration all the ways
in which we went wrong in our last expedition. This new
one is designed to produce the maximum amount of· efficiency,
as opposed to the last expedition, which was away fourteen
months, and was only able to spend very few months in the
field. In fact, in the light of our increased knowledge,
I have tried to produce what seems to us to be the ideal
plan, with particular regard to the safety factor.

To summarise, the plans are as follows: An Advance
Party, consisting of about four men to go up by ship to the
Robertson Bay neighbourhood, establish winter quarters there,
hunt, and lay in stocks of dog-food, arrange for Eskimos to
accompany the sledge parties during the Spring journeys,
and generally get ready for the Main Party who would arrive
by ship at Ivigtut in early March. From there, they would