To read her brief overview of the Beechey Papers, click here.
To organize the papers, I have numbered all non-newsprint fragments as "BP-1" through "BP-12", based on the original order they appear in the archive. Where a Beechey Paper has two sides visible, I have added "A" and "B" suffixes to the file names to denote this.
BP-01-A
BP-01-B
BP-02-A, B: Handwriting present. Believed to be magnetic observations in Fitzjames' handwriting.
BP-03-A: Handwriting present. Name of "Mr. McDonald", Assistant Surgeon on HMS Terror.
BP-03-B
BP-04-A, B: Handwriting present on Side A. Believed to be "to be called".
BP-05-A, B
BP-06-A: Handwriting present. Mathematical notations.
BP-06-B: Handwriting present. Mathematical notations.
BP-07
BP-07 (polarized for readability)
BP-08-A, B
BP-09: Handwriting present.
BP-09 (saturated to highlight the writing)
BP-10, 11: BP-10 above (in two or more fragments) with BP 11 below. Handwriting present.
BP-11: Detail of the debated words.
BP-12: Handwriting present. This is only the more analyzed segment of the larger paper.
The National Archives of the UK (TNA): ADM 7/190
Photos by Logan Zachary
Photos by Logan Zachary
Additional discussions of the Beechey Papers:
-LZ, late 2019