Letter I.

Name: Letters from High Latitudes - Letter I.
Author: Frederick Temple Blackwood

PROTESILAUS STUMBLES ON THE THRESHOLD

Glasgow, Monday, June 2, 1856.

Our start has not been prosperous. Yesterday evening, on passing Carlisle, a telegraphic message was put into my hand, announcing the fact of the "Foam" having been obliged to put into Holyhead, in consequence of the sudden illness of my Master. As the success of our expedition entirely depends on our getting off before the season is further advanced, you can understand how disagreeable it is to have received this check at its very outset. As yet, of course, I know nothing of the nature of the illness with which he has been seized. However, I have ordered the schooner to proceed at once to Oban, and I have sent back the Doctor to Holyhead to overhaul the sick man. It is rather early in the day for him to enter upon the exercise of his functions.

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Chicago: Frederick Temple Blackwood, "Letter I.," Letters from High Latitudes, ed. F. N. Maude and trans. Vom Kriege, J. J. Graham in Letters from High Latitudes Original Sources, accessed November 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BTJLFWKSMIJLHQ7.

MLA: Blackwood, Frederick Temple. "Letter I." Letters from High Latitudes, edited by F. N. Maude, and translated by Vom Kriege, J. J. Graham, in Letters from High Latitudes, Original Sources. 3 Nov. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BTJLFWKSMIJLHQ7.

Harvard: Blackwood, FT, 'Letter I.' in Letters from High Latitudes, ed. and trans. . cited in 1909, Letters from High Latitudes. Original Sources, retrieved 3 November 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BTJLFWKSMIJLHQ7.