stefansson-wrangel-09-20-067

April 18, 1924.

Dear Delphine:

It seems to me you told me once that in one of Fred's letter to you he spoke of a skinboat having been secured at East Cape to be taken to Wrangell Island and that he told you also that it had been washed overboard or otherwise lost. The only other thing to indicate they might have had a skin boat that we can find anywhere is in a letter from Crawford to me where the following three sentences occur. I am giving you all three to see the context although it is only the middle one that refers to the boat.

"Left Nome Sept. 9th. Called East Cape, Siberia to purchase skin boat, sighted island noon yesterday. Resembles in outline and color country round Lewiston, Idaho."

On the other hand Knight says in his diary that they did not buy a boat at East Cape because the natives wanted too high a price.

Will you please tell me that exact date of your wedding? I seem to have forgotten it and cannot find it in my files.

Mrs. F. W. Maurer, 911 Robbins Avenue, Niles, Ohio.