Copy of a telegram from Harold Noice to Alfred Taylor, 31 August 1923
Date30 July, 1923
ms numberStefansson Mss-91: Harold Noice Papers, Box 1, Folder 2
abstractCorrespondence, newspaper articles, and other material related to the ill-fated 1921 expedition to Wrangel Island.
Nome, Alaska
August 31, 1923.
Following telegram sent to
A. J. Taylor
V. Stefansson.
Arrived last night Ada Blackjack only survior stop buried
Knight
August twentieth stop Crawford
Galli
Maurer left
Wrangell
January twenty eight nineteen twenty three stop believe entire party perished you notify relatives of boys as you think best stop have left colony of two eskimo families two unmarried eskimo men in charge of Wells stop equipped party for two years sojurn stop game conditions Wrangell
apparently excellent stop failure of last expedition due to combination poor equipment and inexperience
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