In 1845, the British Royal Navy sent two discovery vessels, complete with a crew of 129 men under the command of Sir John Franklin, into the Canadian Arctic in search of a northwest passage through to the Pacific Ocean. None survived. This paper focuses on one particular relic of the Franklin expedition, a series of fragmentary private documents known as the Peglar Papers.

Saints Who Never Existed: Relics of Franklin’s Lost Expedition & the Archaeology of a Queer Narrative – written and developed for Indiana University’s 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, hosted by the Department of English, “How to Do Things with Worlds,” April 16-17, 2021.

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