harold-noice-01-02-19-001

409 Eastlake Ave.,

Seattle, Washington

March 2, 1925

Mr. Hurle Noise,

Explorers Club,

New York City, N.Y.

Friend Noise,

I am going to take the liberty of writing you at this time,
to ask you for some information and I hope it will not be
imposing on you.

First, I'd want to know if you recieved a letter from me
mailed at Ketchikan, Alaska. When I came down to Ketchikan
in December I found there awaiting me a letter from you,
telling me about some of your troubles and asking me for cer-
tain letters. I had copies made with a notary public's
affidavit attached to each letter and I addressed them to
you in care of Explorer's Club as you had instructed me to.
You never acknowledged receiving it.

Since then from various hints that I have gathered from
various parts of the country, I have a suspicion that you
never received these papers. It is possible that they have
fallen into the hands of your enemy. Please let me know
at once together with any information regarding Wrangel
Island affair and your connection with V.S., that you may
care to let me know. You are and have been accused of
various things in connection with it that I know for a
fact that you are innocent of. But the trouble is that
only very few knows the truth. You might have made some
mistake but we should not trouble ourselves over a mistake
made unintentionally.

The native that you left on Wrangel are here now and I have
won their confidence so they will talk freely. Now I must
tell you they have had a dirty deal.

If claim is made on the Steffensen Exploration and Develop-
ment Company, it is more than probable that V.S. will try
to lay the blame on you, saying that you had exceeded your
authority or something like that. But surely you have his
telegram and writing to prove that you werehis agent.

It would be a good thing if those telegrams and writing
could be in the hands of someone out here.