On their way back from the South Pole in March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party perished of starvation and cold. To his wife, Kathleen, Explorer Scott wrote: "I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolenceĀabove all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous. . . ."
Last week at Ackermann's gallery in London, Peter Markham Scott's...
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