stefansson-wrangel-09-13-078-003

Mr.A.J.Taylor

Sheet 3.

Noice's appeal for help would have been on humanitarian
grounds, and the appeal in this country has been humanitarian also.
The letter to the "Times" has publicly stated that the 2500 dollars
which was first quoted for Allen's ship required supplementing in
order to deposit money in the bank at Nome to safeguard the crew
and the value of the vessel in the event of the ship being frozen in.
The account should therefore show how much money was deposited in the
bank, and how much was refunded on the ship’s return.

I am bound to publish an account of the rescue expenditure,
and I must return the funds not utilised for the purpose for which
they were contributed. The matter is sufficiently serious for me to
come with Mr.Stefansson when he sails for New York on the 9th October,
and I am writing to you thus fully to enable you to get details of
expenditure from Mr.Noice for the expenditure account before we
arrive on October 15th. No doubt Mr.Stefansson will come along to
Toronto the day or so after landing, and I will come with him. I
must return to England within a week of arriving in New York, and as
I wish also to visit Dayton,Ohio, I should greatly appreciate the
accounts being fully prepared before my arrival.

You will I hope excuse the anxious tone of this letter,
but when you know that it was necessary for me to borrow the money
in order to be able to cable you the 10000 dollars on the 31st July,
you will appreciate my desire to have a very clear statement for
publication in England.

Mr.Stefansson tells me that all the work you have put
into this Wrangel Island rescue is without salary or hope of reward,
so we shall be able to shake hands on our mutual efforts when I get
to Toronto.

Yours very truly,