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stefansson-wrangel-09-15-030-001a
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Dear Taylor:
I wired you today "Hold thousand [awa]iting letts regards to you from Wrights". The "regards" was a concise translation of their conversation about you in which they sympathise with you as against Brewer, thinking him in the wrong and too violent - wrong, except the feel you should have refunded the eight hundred odd Canadian dollars that were returned by Noice.
735 550 500 1785
My understanding in England was that insofar as the public subscription in England fell short of the total advanced against it by Brewer it would be a loan to our Company. I believe Brewer advanced about ₤2250. and that the subscriptions amounted to 1785 (of which about ₤200. was subscribed by Brewer himself). According to my understanding our Company still owes Brewer about ₤465. Can't you, without committing yourself or any of the issues of your correspondance with Brewer, mail him the eight hundred odd dollars, saying it is the unexpended balance of of his loan to the company
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stefansson-wrangel-09-15-030-001b
I have repaid Orville Wright one thousa[...] of his three thousand personal loan to me.
It seems to me one question for us is what order our obligations should be paid in. I do not feel the Crawfords should be preferred in this respects to the relatives of the other boys - especially as they seem to take a keener interest in Allan's wages than they do in giving him a chance to rank in Canadian history according to his intentions and achievements. If they are in any way behind the Varsity editorial they must have a sadistic desire to rob their son of some of his deserved and dearly bought honour so they may have the luxury of a more unbearable grief - a form of half-insani[...] not very rare, I believe.