Letter from Francis Leopold McClintock, 2 Gardiner's [Place], Dublin to [James Clark] Ross McClintock acknowledges receipt of Ross’s letters and expresses his desire ‘to obtain arctic employment in preference to every other’. Mr Barrow is under the impression there will be another expedition, therefore McClintock has written to the Secretary of the Admiralty to share his ‘desire of being employed upon any arctic expedition’. McClintock writes to Ross to impress upon him that his ‘patronage is bestowed upon one who is anxious to complete the full amount of service their Lordships deem necessary to merit promotion’ and refers to his fears of being deficient. 26 January 1850