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Samara Cary at Mar 11, 2024 04:13 PM

stefansson-wrangel-09-15-035-001a

Reporters were
at the deck
Ada would not
be photographed!

On board S. S San Francisco

My dear V.S.

Just sent you a wire to
the Harvard Club to say that
Ada Bennet and I were this far
on the trip - safely and 'improving
every minute" - Ada finally
got over being sea sick yesterday
and came out on deck in time
to see the mountains and wish she
were in Nome -homesick for ice
and snow and wanted to walk
miles into the mountains.
She told me that
the great dipper was
"The Caribou"- said

her mout mother always said to her "Ada look at it
a long time and see if you can't see a caribou
but I never could" - She seems more and more content
and today she was very happy When we went for on a drive thru Golden
Gate Park
- she sat with her
hands clasped in her lap when we were driving thru
the park, saying oh, oh! - almost under her breath.
Finally she said - "If my mother could see this - I
do not know what she would say - maybe she would
say nothing - just like I do" -

Later she expressed her feeling by saying "I do not know
why white people want to come to Nome when there is

stefansson-wrangel-09-15-035-001a

Reporters were
at the deck
Ada would not
be photographed!

On board S. S San Francisco

My dear V.S.

Just sent you a wire to
the Harvard Club to say that
Ada Bennet and I were this far
on the trip - safely and 'improving
every minute" - Ada finally
got over being sea sick yesterday
and came out on deck in time
to see the mountains and wish she
were in Nome -homesick for ice
and snow and wanted to walk
miles into the mountains.
She told me that
the great dipper was
"The Caribou"- said

her mout mother always said to her "Ada look at it
a long time and see if you can't see a caribou
but I never could" - She seems more and more content
and today she was very happy When we went for on a drive thru Golden
Gate Park
- she sat with her
hands clasped in her lap when we were driving thru
the park, saying oh, oh! - almost under her breath.
Finally she said - "If my mother could see this - I
do not know what she would say - maybe she would
say nothing - just like I do" -

Later she expressed her feeling by saying "I do not know
why white people want to come to Nome when there is