Cover letter from W F Rawnsley, dated 3 Jun 1924, to a collector who had purchased the letter (AGC/F/9/1) from Lady Franklin to her husband.

The cover letter from her nephew explains that she preserved all the letters she had written to her husband which were returned to her by unsuccessful expeditions. The letter also contains a postcard of Lady Jane Franklin (now catalogued separatley as AGC/F/9/3).

Administrative / biographical background
Mr. Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, J.P, was the great-nephew of explorer Sir John Franklin and Lady Jane Franklin, he was the eldest son of the Rev. Drummond Rawnsley, rector of Halton Holgate, Lincolnshire, and was sent, like his brother the late Canon H. D. Rawnsley, to Uppingham School in the early period of Edward Thring's great headmastership. He went to Christ Church, migrating later to Corpus Christi College, Oxford and took classical honours. For many years he was proprietor of Winton House, Winchester, a famous private school. On retiring he went to live at Guildford. As a member of the National Trust, he took a leading part in the negotiations which led to the acquisition for the nation of a number of Surrey beauty spots. His tastes were mainly literary and he was at one president of the Poetry Society. He was the author of several books, including “Highways and Byways of Lincolnshire,” a "study of Edward Thring", and “The Life and Letters of Lady Franklin.” He was a recognized authority on the poems of Tennyson, who was Sir John Franklin's nephew by marriage and whom Willingham knew well.