Copy of a telegram from Harold Noice to Alfred Taylor, 31 August 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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Nome, Alaska
August 31, 1923.
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
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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