Letter from Vilhjalmur Stefansson to Frederick Maurer, 23 February 1921
Date23 February, 1921
ms numberStefansson Mss-98, Box 9, Folder 4
AbstractCorrespondence, newspaper articles, and other material related to the ill-fated 1921 expedition to Wrangel Island.
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Maurer
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February 23rd, 1921.
Dear Mr. Maurer:
The package containing the four installments of your story of the "Karluk" and the adventures which followed was too large to be put in my letter box at the Club and was, consequently, put in the check room. There it lay forgotten for I don’t know how long and I have just received it. I read the story over last night with great interest.
I have forgotten whether you said this was the only copy you had. If you have another copy I should like very much to keep this one.
I presume that the photographs marked "Peck’s Studio” are ones of which you have the negatives and that I may, therefore, keep them. The others I shall return.
One of your photographs is marked "Templemen and Maurer
hoisting the Canadian flag at Rogers Harbor, July 1st, 1914, Dominion Day." Hadley told me about a ceremony you had on Wrangel Island by which you took possession of the island for the Canadian Government. Was the hoisting of the flag shown in this photograph the
occasion when possession was taken? I had understood from
Hadley that, the ceremony took place at Waring Point.
Please write me briefly describing this ceremony of taking possession, saying whether it was at Waring Point or Rogers Harbor, and whether you took part in it.
I am enclosing a separate letter regarding: the vegetation and natural conditions of Wrangel Island.
Please let me know how much it cost to get the prints made that you sent me. Also, if you can, let me have half a dozen copies of the photograph showing the hoisting of the Canadian flag on Dominion Day. I want to send these to certain officers of the Canadian Government.
Mr. Frederick W. Maurer,
New, Philadelphia, Ohio.
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