‘Off we go for the pole’ wrote doomed Antarctic explorer

A four-page letter written by Edward ‘Bill’ Wilson to a friend during the early days of the doomed British Antarctic Expedition sold for £19,000 at Fieldings (26% buyer’s premium) in Stourbridge.

The letter came for sale on April 30 from a descendant of the recipient, the Sunderland-born artis…

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