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Walker

Night Letter X

Indianapolis Aug. 13 1922

To Sir Edmund Walker
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Toronto, Ontario.

Reference your kind promise lend five hundred
my Wrangel Island enterprise if I could borrow
rest from others stop Orville Wright inventor
of aeroplane has offered three thousand I have
five hundred total needed four thousand three
thousand to charter ship eight hundred supplies etc
and then some incidentals Will you kindly wire
five hundred Vancouver credit to Stefansson Exploration
and Development Company Vancouver they will send
you demand note

V. Stefansson.