Copy of an agreement between Loring Pickering and Alfred Taylor, 30 July 1923
Date30 July, 1923
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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63 Park Row
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 30th day of July, 1923,
between the North American Newspaper Alliance, and Mr. A. J. Taylor,
attorney for Mr. Harold Noice, and Vice President of the Stefansson
Arctic Exploration and Development Company.
between the North American Newspaper Alliance, and Mr. A. J. Taylor,
attorney for Mr. Harold Noice, and Vice President of the Stefansson
Arctic Exploration and Development Company.
The Newspaper Alliance agrees to purchase from Mr. Taylor
exclusive world newspaper rights of the complete story and narrative
of Mr. Harold Noice, believed to be in Nome, Alaska, describing his
forthcoming expedition to Wrangel Island to rescue the Crawford
party and his observations, scientific and otherwise, on the island.
exclusive world newspaper rights of the complete story and narrative
of Mr. Harold Noice, believed to be in Nome, Alaska, describing his
forthcoming expedition to Wrangel Island to rescue the Crawford
party and his observations, scientific and otherwise, on the island.
The material is to consist of at least a two thousand (2,000)
word dispatch to be telegraphed from Nome previous to the sailing of
the expedition. It will include all dispatches which it is possible
to transmit from Siberia or wherever the relief ship may be during
the expedition and will include the full narrative extending to a
minimum of twenty thousand words (20,000) to be delivered on Mr. Noice's
return. The material also includes all photographs taken of the
rescue expedition and of the rescued persons, etc.
word dispatch to be telegraphed from Nome previous to the sailing of
the expedition. It will include all dispatches which it is possible
to transmit from Siberia or wherever the relief ship may be during
the expedition and will include the full narrative extending to a
minimum of twenty thousand words (20,000) to be delivered on Mr. Noice's
return. The material also includes all photographs taken of the
rescue expedition and of the rescued persons, etc.
This agreement is conditional on no newspaper interviews being
given by Mr. Noice or by any members of his expedition or by others
in possession of facts essential to the narrative from the date
of this contract until after the material specified in this contract
has been delivered to the Newspaper Alliance and published by its
members.
given by Mr. Noice or by any members of his expedition or by others
in possession of facts essential to the narrative from the date
of this contract until after the material specified in this contract
has been delivered to the Newspaper Alliance and published by its
members.
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This agreement is conditional on Mr. Noice reaching
Wrangel Island within a period of two years from this date.
Wrangel Island within a period of two years from this date.
The sum which it is agreed the North American Newspaper
Alliance shall pay for the service as described herein shall
be Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00).
Alliance shall pay for the service as described herein shall
be Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00).
It is a further condition of this agreement that the North American Newspaper
Alliance shall have first option on the
rights of Mr. Taylor or of Mr. Noice or of Mr. Stefansson, or of
the Stefansson Arctic Exploration and Development Company in the
story of Allen Crawford and all the members of his party covering
the period they have resided on Wrangel Island, the price therefor
to be agreed when the nature of the material becomes known to the
contracting parties, - with this understanding, that in the event
of Allen Crawford controlling his own story Messrs. Taylor and
Noice and their associates will use their best influence with
him to deal first with the Newspaper Alliance.
Alliance shall have first option on the
rights of Mr. Taylor or of Mr. Noice or of Mr. Stefansson, or of
the Stefansson Arctic Exploration and Development Company in the
story of Allen Crawford and all the members of his party covering
the period they have resided on Wrangel Island, the price therefor
to be agreed when the nature of the material becomes known to the
contracting parties, - with this understanding, that in the event
of Allen Crawford controlling his own story Messrs. Taylor and
Noice and their associates will use their best influence with
him to deal first with the Newspaper Alliance.
LORING PICKERING, General Manager
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