"This book is not published" -- t.p.

Inscribed by author to Sir Leigh Ashton.

Only 11 copies in Worldcat.

Robert (Steed) Dunn was an explorer, author, naval officer, and journalist whose interests carried him into many corners of the world. After his graduation from Harvard in 1898, he travelled the Yukon Trail to the Klondike. He became a journalist upon his return.

Dunn was a correspondent for the Commercial Advertiser under Lincoln Steffens, and was assigned to accompany Cook in his attempt to climb Mount McKinley, Alaska. On this trip he gathered information for his book, Shameless Diary of an Explorer. Other assignments led him to Martinique and on a world cruise with the U.S. Fleet.

As a war correspondent Dunn covered the Russo-Japanese War, the naval cruise to seize Veracruz, and General Pershing's expedition into Mexico against Pancho Villa. During World War I, he was a correspondent for the New York Post, and wrote Five Fronts.

In 1918 he was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy, and served as an intelligence officer in London and in Constantinople.

During his later years, Dunn concentrated on horticulture and on writing in his home in Katonah, New York. He wrote two published novels, Youngest World, and Horizon Fever; and one book of verse, And Least Love. World Alive, his autobiography, was published in 1956 after his death.

The papers of Dunn reflect the varied interests and experiences of his life. Diplomatic dispatches report the political situation in the Near East in 1920: fighting among the Armenians, Georgians, and Azerbaijans; and questions of oil rights. Photographs depict his world travels - from the barren Antarctic coast to the slopes of Mt. McKinley in Alaska. And notebooks detail his war experiences in Mexico; and trips to Alaska, Japan, and Central America. There are manuscripts of his published novels and articles; and extensive revisions of his autobiography are included.

The Robert (Steed) Dunn papers are a part of the Vilhjalmur Stefansson Collection on the Polar Regions at Dartmouth College. A gift of the estate of Robert Dunn, these papers occupy approximately 6.5 linear feet


Robert Steed Dunn (1877 - 1955), a member of Harvard's class of 1898, was an explorer and a Poet. His works include, the Shameless Diary of an Explorer (1907), The Youngest World: A Novel of the frontier (1914) and World Alive: a Personal Sotry (1956).

From the letters of George Santayana