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Letters from Mrs. John Fletcher
About Ada Blackjack
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February 12, 1924.

Dear V.S.-

May be able to mail this at Victoria, so want to say
that Ada and Bennitt are with me. At the last she decided to go. Mrs. Allen
helped her get ready and got her to the boat. Miss Andrus came down to see
me off. I think she will write you about Mr. & Mrs. Gore, of Nome, who came
down to the boat and were very excited about me putting Ada in the movies and
getting money for it. I didn't quite get the idea, and asked Miss Andrus
to find out and write you. I do not know whether Ada has a receipt or dupli-
cate paper or not. Mr. Jordan said not to pay $50 now and $450. later but all
at once.

I gave her $20. and spent $10. on Bennett. I am afraid
this must go as a present to her because Mr. Jordan had told her I would fix
her up with clothes.

She looks very well and seems quite happy to be on the
way to Calif. She told me a bit ago that she didn't tell her sisters she was
going, that she didn't see them much any more for they asked her for money
and she didn't give it to them and they didn't like it. She didn't mind giving
them "a half or a dollar but forty or fifty - no." I hope everything is all
right, and I have tried to get things fixed up to suit her.

As I wired you I talked to Mr. Glass, ass't. cashier of
Dexter-Horton Bank. He has looked after her affairs. He seemed to think it
wise for you to pay the money to her account there - and when I told Ada she
seemed satisfied with that. Perhaps it would be well for you to write to him
direct, anything you want to know. I certainly have moved rapidly this day and