Wonderful!

As an aside, a while ago there was a snippet in New Scientist about Franklin's (apparently 'pioneering') use of meteorological balloons on this expedition; each balloon had a cardboard tag where the date and location of its release were to be written just before its release. Lady Franklin received one of these tags with a date quite some time after everyone else had given Lord Franklin up as lost and she tried to encourage another rescue attempt. The clue to the tag being a fake was that the location was given as "Longitude ..., Latitude ..." when standard procedure (then as now) was to give locations as "Latitude ..., Longitude ...". More recent investigation, reported in the article, traced the tag to someone who had had access to the original stock of the balloons; there were X balloons made and all except two or three were 'issued to' and taken by Franklin's expedition. The culprit had got hold of one of the samples left in Britain and used it for his hoax.

Cheers, Rowan