stefansson-wrangel-09-21-007-004

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ways - either by the party getting on unsafely thin ice and being suddenly
drowned by breaking through, or else by the overturning into the water of
the ice cake upon which they were camped in a gale, perhaps in the darkness
of night.

I regretfully admit that The general impression given by my
news story now appears to me unduly critical. I do know that I wanted to
do justice to the men while analyzing the causes of the tragedy and I hope
that many of the errors may be due to a misunderstanding on the part of the
journalist who wrote up my story from the questions asked and the answers
I gave. regret that some false impressions
have been given.

My complete breakdown followed soon after the publication of the
original long and detailed newspaper story and its approach must have been
the cause of some weird imaginings which what I later printed and which I was
then convinced I had discovered in was justified by what I found in Lorne Knight's diary and the diary
of Ada Blackjack.

(signed) Harold Noice.

( End publication with above signature)
(do not publish what follows)

New York, N. Y.

I, Harold Noice, do hereby solemnly swear assert that I have read the
above statement and re-read the accompanying letter written by myself and
addressed to Mr. Stefansson and that unqualified permission is hereby given
by me to Mr. Stefansson and the publishers of his book, "The Adventure of
Wrangel Island," to publish both of the aforementioned documents, namely
Mr. Stefansson's explanation of my letter and the letter itself.
and have requested the partners who were pre then
present to witt witness my signature hereto

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ways - either by the party getting on unsafely thin ice and being suddenly
drowned by breaking through, or else by the overturning into the water of
the ice cake upon which they were camped in a gale, perhaps in the darkness
of night.

I regretfully admit that The general impression given by my
news story now appears to me unduly critical. I do know that I wanted to
do justice to the men while analyzing the causes of the tragedy and I hope
that many of the errors may be due to a misunderstanding on the part of the
journalist who wrote up my story from the questions asked and the answers
I gave. regret that some false impressions
have been given.

My complete breakdown followed soon after the publication of the
original long and detailed newspaper story and its approach must have been
the cause of some weird imaginings which what I later printed and which I was
then convinced I had discovered in was justified by what I found in Lorne Knight's diary and the diary
of Ada Blackjack.

(signed) Harold Noice.

(End publication with above signature)
(do not publish what follows)

New York, N. Y.

I, Harold Noice, do hereby solemnly swear assert that I have read the
above statement and re-read the accompanying letter written by myself and
addressed to Mr. Stefansson and that unqualified permission is hereby given
by me to Mr. Stefansson and the publishers of his book, "The Adventure of
Wrangel Island," to publish both of the aforementioned documents, namely
Mr. Stefansson's explanation of my letter and the letter itself.
and have requested the [partners] who were pre then
present to witt witness my signature hereto