stefansson-wrangel-09-12-111-001

NoAns

August 11, 1923

Dear Mr. Stefansson:

I am sending you all of the magazine articles of
which I can find copies. Many of them you probably won't want at all
but I am sending them anyway in case you might.

I haven't a very good selection of pictures to send.
Those that we have have been picked over so many times that there are few
good ones left. I am sending the best ones we have of general interest,
and the only ones I can find that show arctic vegetation. The only good
pictures of Wrangel Island are now with the newspaper alliance that is
carrying Noice's story. However, they have had these some time and I
expect them to return them in a few days. Mr. LeBourdais is going to try
to get them as soon as possible and send them to you. If he does send
them to you, will you take extra care of them? They are the photographs
that Mr. Maurer gave you. Of course, we don t have the negatives and
there is no way of replacing them.

I am forwarding a letter from Carl Lomen about your
stock in the Lomen Company. The certificate for ten shares of stock
that was enclosed with it I am keeping here - I have put it in the safe
in the office so that nothing will happen to it. When you get back I
shall call it to your attention and you can turn it in for other shares,
as Mr. Lomen suggests.

I am sending a few other letters, some of which have
been here for some time. That is because when they arrived they seemed
to require no immediate answer. As you know, every time I forwarded your
mail for a long time, I thought that would be the last time, and so I
continued to hold these letters here for you to answer when you got back.

Mr. LeBourdais is going to forward your mail and look
after things here. Now that our part is done with regard to the Wrangel
situation there is very little doing here, so I think there won't be much
to attend to.

I haven't received money yet from Winnipeg but I
suppose it will come in a few days and be sent on to me.

I saw in a newspaper item the other day that you are
writing two books. I wonder if that is true. For your sake I hope so;
and yet from my own standpoint I shall be rather sorry if that is the case.

I hope that my complaints about the hot weather have