illuminator⚓️FranklinEx.🚨New dive season details:
Leather folio with quill and pages inside found in steward's pantry.
Other paper fragment found as well.
Lens from someone's eyeglasses.
Ryan Harris: “a leather book cover, beautifully embossed with pages inside ... feather quill pen still tucked inside the cover like a journal that you might write in and put on your bedside table.”
“...might have written materials inside.”
“It’s being analyzed in the lab now.”
Also found: a green box of drafting tools in Le Vesconte's cabin.
Yes, this is a first: a potential journal recovered from the Franklin Expedition shipwreck HMS Erebus.
If there's anything written, it's the first Franklin Expedition writing found since 1859. (If there's just a doodle, it's the first drawing since the King William Island "pointing hand" of 1879.)
Karin Lach"The leather folio was excavated bit by bit with a spoon..."
Presumably then, that rectangle beneath the spoon is the potential journal they found.
Is there a better person to get real details from than a tattooed steward? Eddie Hoar. This is much better than finding a journal in the officer cabins. And he kept it at the bottom of a pantry drawer...
Jillian Price@illuminator oho I hope we get some shipboard snark from this bottom-of-the-drawer journal