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A. Whit writing up his diary after dinner. 10:15 pm Aug 14th.
B. Washing up breakfast things. Aug 15th.
C. Whit “sitting and thinking”.

Titled - Good clean fun and games.
A. Forbes Bunny Doc
B. Sliding on plates. Forbes ’Self’ Bunny
C. Bunny and Doc
D. Dykes and August paddling with ice axes on ice floes. Dangerous.

None is dated.

A. Clouds at the mouth of Musk Ox Fjord with North Fjord in the distance. from 800’ up on the N. side of Musk ox Fjord near junction of Archaen and Cambrian Rocks of the Musk Ox inlier. 12:30 pm Aug 15th.
B. Our camp sit on the north side of Musk Ox Fjord, from the boat. 6:30 pm Aug 15th.
C. “Heimland” coming to pick us up from Musk Ox Fjord camp. Note ice berg. 6pm Aug 15th.
D. “Payer Spitze” (6900’) on Suess land with an hanging glacier and ice bergs in Franz-Josef Fjord. 10:15 am Aug 16th.

Titled - The Nordenskiold Glacier.
A. A serac.
B. Lateral moraine.
C. A serac.
D. The crossing Wordie Doc Courtauld.
E. From the top of the Disa glacier showing the way the party came. Ptarmigan glaciers in the distance.

None of these photographs is dated, but Wordie's published account suggests that the party crossed the Nordenskiold glacier on 14 August and reached the Disa glacier on 15 August.

A. Untitled
B. Rough seas.
C. Faroe fishing boat.
D and E. The Harbour - Thoershaven.

Diaries and photographs relating to the Cambridge University East Greenland Expedition June-September 1929. The expedition was led by James Wordie, and the members were August Courtauld, 'Bunny' Fuchs, Doc. Whittard, Cuthbert Wakefield, Vernon Forbes, Dykes and Varley.

Photographs taken on the East Greenland expedition, the majority of which were taken by MMLP.

Press cuttings from various newspapers. Five are dated 10 September and report on the return of the expedition. Two are dated 29 January 1930 and cover the first ascent of Petermann Peak, Greenland's highest mountain. Another is undated, presumed January 1930, and was folded inside one of the photograph albums.