JOHN FRANKLIN * PSA * Vanished POLAR EXPLORER Autograph Signed * RIP PSA/DNA Slabbed Now she is ill and

Now she is ill and the darkness that covers me has fallen upon her

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1984 becoming the second black American in space

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But was this man hoping to hide behind this pile of rubble that he just had to turn

JOHN FRANKLIN * PSA * Vanished POLAR EXPLORER Autograph Signed * RIP PSA/DNA Slabbed Now she is ill andIll fated vanished Polar Explorer Rear Admiral Sir JOHN FRANKLIN scarce handwritten, one page undated autograph letter signed. Franklin thanks the eminent Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison for a book. Murchison, a central figure in British science and president of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Geological Society would later play an instrumental role in promoting and defending Franklin's legacy after his disappearance.