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Apology for lines of verse, written in 1855.

A writer's apology for 'the accompanying lines' written 'during a period of extreme suffering', the lines in question being perhaps one or other of the poems (McCLU/5-6) about the discoverers of the North-West Passage, 21 March 1855

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ID:	MCCLU/7
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1855
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier, Vice-Admiral, 1807-1873. (Manuscript) Papers from the early part of McClure's career, 1824-1842. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/1-2) Commendations after completing the North-West Passage, circa 1855. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/3-4) Poem in blank verse inspired by McClure's despatches while trapped in the Arctic, 1853. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/5) Sonnet praising McClure, 1854. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/6) Apology for lines of verse, written in 1855. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/7) Passport for travelling on the Continent, 1855. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/8) Papers relating to the East Indies and China, 1858-1860. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/9-12) Memorandum book relating to the East Indies and China, 1857. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/13) Papers relating to honours and appointments, 1834-1867. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/14-19) Medals and seals, circa 1822-1860. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/20-23) Photographs and ephemera. (Manuscript) (MCCLU/24)

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