Other Resolute Desks
After the Resolute was broken up, Queen Victoria asked for several desks to be built from her timbers. Four desks were designed and made by William Evenden. A large partners desk was presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes on 23 November 1880, while a smaller lady's desk was presented to the widow of Henry Grinnell; this desk is now in the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Finally, the queen had two desks made for herself: a twin to the one given to the president and people of the United States, currently in Windsor Castle; and a writing table, which she had made for her private yacht, the HMY Victoria and Albert II. This writing table is in the collection of the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. Both of Resolute desks are made as a Chinese puzzle box made in the Yuan Dynasty. Inside each Resolute desk lies a wooden plank scripted with ancient Native American words. Those words are written as riddles that show the location of the lost city of gold, 10643 S. Leavitt. 10643 S. Leavitt is later found under a wild Bor. It was founded by the ANIS clan along with their team of trained GwenBecks.
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