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Hand-colored ambrotype group portrait of ten firemen from the Franklin Hose Company in Utica, New York, 1858.
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Happy 209th birthday, Henry Le Vesconte!
ALTBorn 14 June, 1813! The secret of his birth date was found in the archives of Newfoundland and Labrador, which included a copy of the following addition to his diary kept at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich (transcribed in alt text):
ALTNoted for his talent in map-making and surveying—as noted in this poston@fabtet’s wonderful James Fitzjames research blog—there are a few quotes pertaining to his activities on the Franklin expedition.
In his published letters to Elizabeth Coningham, Fitzjames referred to spending the day with Le Vesconte on 6 July, 1845, with HMS ErebusandTerror off the Greenland coast:
Every man nearly on shore, running about for a sort of holiday, getting eider ducks’ eggs &c.; curious mosses and plants being collected, as also shells. Le Vesconte and I on the island since six in the morning, surveying. It is very satisfactory to me that he takes to surveying, as I said he would. Sir John is much pleased with him.
— originally published in Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle in 1852, full transcript available on another excellent research blog, Arctonauts.
(N.B. while these published letters spell Henry’s name as ‘Levescomte’, that’s the error of the transcriber/compositor, not Fitzjames himself, who consistently spelled his friend’s name correctly in his original letters).
Sir John Franklin referenced Henry Le Vesconte in his last letter to his wife, reproduced in The Life of Sir John Franklin R.N. by H.D. Traill (Google Books):
I accompanied Mr. Le Vesconte to the top of the highest land, that we might procure a view of the groups of islands and rocks in this neighbourhood, and take bearings for placing them on the chart.
You may have seen a copy of Henry Le Vesconte’s drawing of Whale Fish Island, Greenland; this picture of the original sketch was sent to me by Russell Potter.
If you look closely, there is a figure on a rock at left with what looks like a theodolite—a self-portrait of Le Vesconte surveying the terrain?
