Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
The North Pole - A Note to Jopsephine
A portrait of a younger Josephine Diebitsch
Peary
"The thirty hours at the Pole, what with my marchings and countermarchings,
together with the observations and records, were pretty well crowded. I found
time, however, to write to Mrs. Peary on a United States postal card which I
had found on the ship during the winter. It had been my custom at various important
stages of the journey northward to write such a note in order that, if anything
serious happened to me, these brief communications might ultimately reach her
at the hands of survivors. This was the card, which later reached Mrs. Peary
at Sydney:—
"90 North Latitude, April 7th.
'My dear Jo,
I have won out at last. Have been here a day. I start for home and you
in an hour. Love to the kidsies.
Bert.' " - Robert E. Peary in The North Pole, published
in 1910
"Josephine Diebitsch Peary" by G. V. Buck, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
