The discovery in 2014 and 2018 of the two largely intact and sunken ships, Erebus and Terror, of the lost John Franklin expedition of 1845 to the Arctic, has once again stirred up worldwide interest in the tragic voyage that eventually claimed all 129 sailors that had set out from England. This new collection brings together, from far flung archives, 173 letters from the crew (plus an additional 21 letters from the family to the “lost”) that were sent from the beginning of the voyage until the last handoff when the ships were off the coast of Greenland. My immediate motivation in reading the collection was to gain a window into the religious lives of this disparate group of British sailors as well to learn more of the mystique surrounding a tragic but heroic event that ended in what became Canadian waters. Many of the letters were from Sir John Franklin himself, written to his family and friends. Franklin comes across as a devout, evangelical Christian who led Sunday services in the morning on the main deck that were attended by the crew and then in the evening an additional service in his cabin for those who wished or were on watch in the morning. The letters of the crew routinely speak highly of Franklin and comment positively on his sermons. One sailor wrote to his parents that Franklin “gives sermons out of his sermon books & I can assure you – adds a great deal himself – They say they would sooner hear him than half the parsons in England.” The two ships became hopelessly jammed in the ice off King William Island with Franklin succumbing on June 11, 1847, as listed in a document later found in a cairn, the only known date of death of anyone in the expedition. It is thought that all the crew were dead by 1850. There remains the possibility of finding further details of the voyage and even preserved documents, through continued exploration of the two wrecks. This is perhaps a book to be checked out from a public library where one can find other recent writings on the fated voyage.