Long cutting from unnamed newspaper headed 'THE PATAGONIAN MISSION'.

The piece relates to 'the death by starvation of Commander A. Gardiner and the whole of the party sent out by the Patagonian Missionary Society in September 1850, to Picton Island, the southern extremity of America'. '3 columns, each 13½ inches by 2¾, attached to a piece of grey paper, and a fourth column, 3¾ inches by 2¾, attached to another piece. Discoloured and with minor spotting but in good condition overall. The article consists exclusively of transcriptions of two letters from Captain W. H. Morshead, H.M.S. Dido, at sea, 22 January and 21 February 1852, and of a covering letter from Rear-Admiral Fairfax Moresby, H.M.S. Portland, at Valparaiso, 21 February 1852.