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Mr .Harold Noice New York City, N.Y. Waldorf Hotel
Dear Sir;
I have been reading your wonderful story of the tragedy of Wrangle Island written from the diary of Lorne Knight as far as I have been able to get hold of the issues containing them.
I had expected, from what you told me at your room in the Frye Hotel ,last Sept., that you would turn this diary over to the Stefansson Arctic Exploration and Development Co. at Tornonto but, in as much as you seem not to have done so, I am wondering what would be the chances to get it from you when you have finished with it ?
Of course, all this is sacred to me and my family and I did not know that the rithg possession of it gave you the ownership or, I should have entered into negotiations with you for it at Seattle although, I presume I could not have paid you the price for it that you have received from the newspaper syndicate.
I shall be glad to hear from you with a suggestion looking to the surrender of this and also the treatise on Scurvy which Lorne wrote ,as you told me, and I shall very much enjoy a hope that I may gain possession of them at an early date.
Yours truly;
This has been sent him. K