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Maurer

October 16, 1924.

Dear Delphine:

Thanks for your kind note of October 7th. If
I am in Ohio anywhere near you I shall, of course, let you
know. So far I have not been booked in Ohio except in Toledo
October 24th, and that is a long way from you.

The Australian tour was very successful financially
for my manager, for we had very large audiences. This financial
success was unfortunately not mine, for I was on a definite
salary. However, I can make a good deal of money if I want to go
next year, for they have offered me double the pay I received this
year. What I got this year just paid expenses from New York and
back again.

I am hoping very much that you will like the
Wrangel Island book when it comes out. I have never tried any-
thing so difficult to write. It seemed we could not establish
the character and ability of the boys without showing the
unreliability and incorrectness of Mr. Noice's story. It is
always unpleasant to have to go after anyone that way, no
matter how richly he may deserve it.

I believe Mr. Noice is now back in New York from
Brazil. His marriage proved to be temporary as his wife left
him in Brazil and sailed for Europe. The separation is said to
be permanent. Mr. Noice now wants to sign certain retractions
but we do not know yet whether he will make them sweeping enough.
Of course, if he voluntarily owns up to all the untruths which
we can prove, we shall have no need for proving them and that
may enable me to omit from the book the most troublesom chapter
in which I have established his unreliability.

Mrs. Delphine Maurer,
911 Robbins Avenue,
Niles, Ohio.