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At Ottawa the other day I saw the Prime Minister and the Minister
of the Interior and explained to them our motives in forming the Stefansson
Arctic and Exploration and Development Company, and the general idea behind
our operations in Wrangell Island. They seemed well pleased and disposed
to support us. However, I must go to Ottawa in a week or two, and then I
can let you know more definitely. In the meantime, a frank letter from you
to your friend, Dr. King, telling about our mee ting in Reno, Nevada and our
motives and subsequent operations, would be in my opinion a good thing.

How about your proposed trip to England?

For the present, there is nothing to be done about the men at
Wrangell Island.

I think we should pay taxes on the goods taken from the United
States into Wrangell Island. On the whole, I judge I had better not write
the Minister of Customs about this until either you or I have had a chance
to talk with him, for the letter might get into the hands of some irresponsi-
ble clerk who might handle it in the wrong way.

Mr. A. J. T. Taylor,
Credit Foncier Building,
Vancouver, B. C.