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Miss Helen Lomen, Seattle, Wash. Spring Apts.
Dear Helen.;
I am writing you hastily so as to get it in the mail for the first train north and will not be able to say all I want to say.
Mr. Stefansson has sent me your letter to forward as he has mislaid your address,if he had it, and he has sent me a copy of it and I note therein that he suggest that you see helen Ada, and make some arrangements with her for having her story written.
I have learned a good deal about the Eskimo disposition and about Ada in particular and I am going to tell you frankly ah what it is in particular.
She appreciates you and Carl and is very grateful to you for the things you have done for her but, when talking about you and others, she used this language. " I dont care for Helen " and you know that we were unable to get any more out of her but, I am of the opinion that she dont care for me because where, if that is true, a white person would have said so or lied about it, she said nothing and I just think that she likes Mrs.Knight much better than she does me.
I am telling you that because I am in doubt as to the wisdom of your undertaking to get anywhere with her and the negotiations.
She admits that Noice has treated her very badly and that her sisters are very bitter toward him for it all and I tried to get her to give an assignment of her diary to Mr .Stefansson so that he could get it now that Noice has finished with it but, she would admit all about him but she was loyal for she felt that he had saved her life and had brought her from the island to her Mother and Bennett and she would not go back on him.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Mr .Stefansson and he may have some one else in mind who can approach her on the subject.
She says that, the reason she would not autograph the picture you had and wanted her to sign, was that she did not give it to you. She brought this subject up herself.
Please use your own judgment about this matter and dont understand me as advising against your seeing her but, she resents all efforts to assist her because she says she has money of her own and knows how to use it.
Hastily with Kindest ragr regards to your Mother.
JIK.
[note in left margin] I would be glad if you would go to see her and see what she has to say of her visit over here and let me know
[note in right margin] Mr. Stefansson, I believe a letter written to her by you, such as you wrote to Helen might do more good, and ask her to see some one who would help her at h[...][ccest]. K