Autograph request
Postcard sent by Bray to Robert A. Bartlett on 30th December 1918 asking for his autograph.
Robert "Bob" Abram Bartlett (August 15, 1875 - April 28, 1946) was a Newfoundland-born American Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bartlett was captain of the SS Roosevelt and accompanied United States Navy Commander Robert Peary on his attempts to reach the North Pole. He was awarded the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society for breaking the trail through the frozen Arctic Sea to within 150 miles of the pole, yet was excluded from the final exploring party (possibly due to a rivalry between the two men). Bartlett took a ship and was the first person to sail north of 88° N.
