Sir Ernest Shackleton:
I'd like to have taken you with me in the Caird.
Frank Hurley:
You've chosen a good team.
Sir Ernest Shackleton:
You're the expedition photographer,
Frank:
I think it right that you stay with the expedition. In some ways you *are* the expedition. I don't know what our chances are in the Caird; evens at best, I suspect. If we die, then what we've done lies with you and your pictures. You are our story. If I don't come back, I want to make sure there's someone there to tell it. I've drawn up this letter: it gives you back the rights to all your pictures and your films if I die.
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