Copy of a letter from Helen Crawford to Harold Noice, 26 January 1926
Date26 January, 1926
abstractCorrespondence, newspaper articles, and other material related to the ill-fated 1921 expedition to Wrangel Island.
RepositoryRauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Call NumberStefansson Mss-91: Harold Noice Papers, Box 1, Folder 2
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(Copy)
Jan. 26, 1926.
Dear Mr. Noice: -
I have been a long time acknowledging your
letter of Nov. 10th, but I, like yourself, found I
had to put away thoughts of the Wrangel Island
tragedy for a while owing to the nervous strain.
letter of Nov. 10th, but I, like yourself, found I
had to put away thoughts of the Wrangel Island
tragedy for a while owing to the nervous strain.
I am writing now to let you know that
we had a letter from Dr. Isaiah Bowman
saying that the Explorer's Club would be gratified
to receive one of the photos of our son taken
on Wrangel Island. This photo while interesting
as showing how the boy appeared as an arctic
explorer is not really a good likeness of him,
so we thought we had better send also a
reproduction of the photo he had taken
at Seattle in 1921 just before sailing for
Nome and Wrangel Island. We sent these
photos on Sat. last Jan. 23 to the Explorer's Club. We
hope you will be so kind as to see that
they are hung all right and please let us know.
We had an artist do the lettering on the photo,
at considerable expense andwe selected the
most suitable frames we could find.
we had a letter from Dr. Isaiah Bowman
saying that the Explorer's Club would be gratified
to receive one of the photos of our son taken
on Wrangel Island. This photo while interesting
as showing how the boy appeared as an arctic
explorer is not really a good likeness of him,
so we thought we had better send also a
reproduction of the photo he had taken
at Seattle in 1921 just before sailing for
Nome and Wrangel Island. We sent these
photos on Sat. last Jan. 23 to the Explorer's Club. We
hope you will be so kind as to see that
they are hung all right and please let us know.
We had an artist do the lettering on the photo,
at considerable expense and
most suitable frames we could find.
I sent a copy of the Canadian Historical
Review for September containing an unfavorable
review of the adventure of Wrangel Island to
Dr. Bowman for the Explorer's Club. Did you
and your friends in the Club see it? If not
let me know at once and I will send
another copy. The Review exposes some of the
author's falsehoods.
Review for September containing an unfavorable
review of the adventure of Wrangel Island to
Dr. Bowman for the Explorer's Club. Did you
and your friends in the Club see it? If not
let me know at once and I will send
another copy. The Review exposes some of the
author's falsehoods.
Before I became too nervous to go on with the
work I had photostats made of almost all the
original documents you left in my care, (it is
not customary to take photostats of copies of
documents). The originals I placed in the
archives for the present for safe-keeping as
the risk involved in keeping them at home
was too great. When I feel able to get the
photostating completed I shall send the
photostats to you. It would be most unwise
to send photostats to the American Geographical
Society where V. S. would see them or to
the Galles (who are friendly to him) before your
book appears as it would give the enemy time
to prepare his alibies and would also interfere
with the sales of the book.
work I had photostats made of almost all the
original documents you left in my care, (it is
not customary to take photostats of copies of
documents). The originals I placed in the
archives for the present for safe-keeping as
the risk involved in keeping them at home
was too great. When I feel able to get the
photostating completed I shall send the
photostats to you. It would be most unwise
to send photostats to the American Geographical
Society where V. S. would see them or to
the Galles (who are friendly to him) before your
book appears as it would give the enemy time
to prepare his alibies and would also interfere
with the sales of the book.
It was the fact that your book would contain
original hitherto unpublished documents that especially
interested Mr. Harrison Smith of Harcourt,
Brace + Co. By the way did you ever submit
your manuscript to him?
original hitherto unpublished documents that especially
interested Mr. Harrison Smith of Harcourt,
Brace + Co. By the way did you ever submit
your manuscript to him?
There is a possibility of our going abroad
in the spring so if you are going on with
your book and wish any information from
us let us know soon. If you cannot find
time to work on a book yourself perhaps
you may know some good writer who
would undertake it. Your n. a. n. a. stories
in the spring so if you are going on with
your book and wish any information from
us let us know soon. If you cannot find
time to work on a book yourself perhaps
you may know some good writer who
would undertake it. Your n. a. n. a. stories
over
were so excellent, they at least should be in
a book. The other points in your letter I
shall deal with again. I am rushed
at present. Thanking you and Mrs. Noice
for your Xmas remembrance of us
a book. The other points in your letter I
shall deal with again. I am rushed
at present. Thanking you and Mrs. Noice
for your Xmas remembrance of us
Sincerely,
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[
Brewer
] + [Crawford] people [contributed]
money for a purely relief expedition but
the money was put on funding a party
to do trapping for the Stefansson Arctic
Exploration + Development Co.
money for a purely relief expedition but
the money was put on funding a party
to do trapping for the Stefansson Arctic
Exploration + Development Co.
|
|
|
|---|---|
| [Hiring] Donaldson | [?] 2000 approx. |
| Wages | 1120 |
| 484 | |
| Gasoline | 1000 |
| provisions | 5,000 |
| 9,604 | |
| in [?]- | 1000 |
| 10,604 -appro |
discount if it had been a purely relief expedition
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