REJOICE MY HEART: THE MAKING OF H.R. MILL'S THE LIFE OF SIR ERNEST SHACK-LETON - THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF DR HUGH ROBERT MILL AND LADY SHACK- LETON, 1922-33

摘要

Sir Ernest H. Shackleton was laid to rest in Grytviken, South Georgia, on the 5th of March 1922. Forty-four days later, his widow, Emily, wrote to H.R. Mill asking if he would consider writing a biography of her husband. 'I feel that no one could do it as you could...' She had spoken the week before with Sydney Pawling of William Heinemann, the publisher of both The heart of the Antarctic and South, who had expressed enthusiasm for the project. She told Mill that she 'could do a good deal of "spade work," if it would be of assistance...' (Little did she know!) Mill answered Emily Shackleton's letter the very same day -a testament to the speed and efficiency of the postal system of that era - immediately agreeing to the undertaking: 'I should be overjoyed ...' Emily, in her turn, replied the next day, 'Your kind letter rejoiced my heart.'