stefansson-wrangel-09-14-064-002

V.S. 11

As to your visit to the Coast, I have had the matter up
with Ellison & White, of your being sent here as a lyceum number
and they assure me that they have an open date for you Jany.
24 and that we can have you if the committee can arrange it.
Of course, their guarantee will be a big thing for this town
and I have been threatening that, if the committee did not
take it on, I might do so personally but, after due consider-
ation, I have decided that, I will not undertake it myself
because, while there is ger great interest in the subject of
your lectures and especially now, and, it seems that every
man, woman and child in McMinnville and vicinity would go and
pay the price, yet, there is no telling what they will do and
I do not feel justified in the gamble for, I will get to see
and hear you when you come to Portland, anyway.

I hope, however, that the committee will arrange it for,
there is great interest in the matter now and until very
recently, it has been the chief topic of conversation on the
streets and in the clubs and social gatherings and many have
expressed the hope that you would be brought here to tell the
story so they will get more of it.

I am greatly distressed that Noice should have treated the
Galles Maurers as he has because, they feel like outsiders at the
best for, the Arctic was so strange and unknown to them and
now, at this time, to have him treat them so, has been hard.
I have a splendid picture of Lorne, Crawford and Maurer teak
taken just before they sailed from Seattle andPublished in
the Seattle Times and the Editor graciously dug up the nega-
tive and had an enlarged photo 8X10 made and sent to me with
his compliments and, I have bought half a dozen and will
send one to each of the other people.
Of course, Milton is not in it and I am digging up some kodak
films of him here and will sne send these to the Galles.

I shall anxiously await the outcome of this controversy
and I hope that you will be successful in recovering our rights
and I hope it will finally put Noice to shame.

Mrs. Knight is pretty well and recovering her composure to
a remarkable degree but, not a meal but something reminds her
and the tears come freely.

I am hoping that I may secure all the copies of the
story Noice is writing but, the western papers do not seem to
be running it.

Joseph is here with me and he has a bit of wander lust in
his blood and I wish he might have an opportunity to make a
few trips and see some of the U.S.A. but, I believe he has
lost his desire for the Arctic. He is simply absorbed with
radio and he has a pretty good set and people who are wanting
sets built, are consulting him and, it may mean that he will
not fall in with my business but will go into the bisiness of
building radio sets. I wish he might have a n opportunity
for wider study in different parts of the country. He is quite
an admirer of W.W.Grant of Calgary whom he hears each night.