Letter from Allan Crawford to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 18 August 1921
Date18 August, 1921
AbstractCorrespondence, newspaper articles, and other material related to the ill-fated 1921 expedition to Wrangel Island.
RepositoryRauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Call Numberstefansson-wrangel-09-02-003-001
Persistent Identifier
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[Original in Stefansson Correspondence, ML 196. Box 6]
A. R. Crawford, Hotel Frye, Seattle
Aug 18th 1921
No Ans.
Dear Mr. Stefansson;
Your letter of instructions
arrived and will do my best
to follow them.
Your letter of instructions
arrived and will do my best
to follow them.
From conversation with
Maurer & later on receipt of your
letter I gather that you think I
was not
am going to devote my time to
mapping etc when the others were
on the traps. I never meant to give
this impression to you. I have intended
to do as much as possible. What
I meant to imply was should any
contingencyarise crop up that
in the interests of your work would
take me or the line for a couple
of days I would notit like to get
a share in the other man's fur. Especially
now since I am buying shares I
will needthe res what is left
to finish up at Varsity.
Maurer & later on receipt of your
letter I gather that you think I
mapping etc when the others were
on the traps. I never meant to give
this impression to you. I have intended
to do as much as possible. What
I meant to imply was should any
contingency
in the interests of your work would
take me or the line for a couple
of days I would not
a share in the other man's fur. Especially
now since I am buying shares I
will need
to finish up at Varsity.
We are all hoping that the
trip to England will be successful
we will do our best.
trip to England will be successful
we will do our best.
A R Crawford.
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