To an editorial writer in the New York Herald, the swell of goodwill surpassed the response seen in the aftermath of Franklin’s disappearance. “For a second time in the history of polar research, a great expedition is probably lost in the Arctic,” the Herald said. “There is to be another Franklin search, with this difference—that was an English and American search of a limited segment of the polar circle; this will be a universal search of the whole border of the ‘unknown region,’ participated in by nearly all the civilized nations of the earth.”
