Telegram from Vilhjalmur Stefansson to Alfred J. T. Taylor, 22 June 1921
Date22 June, 1921
ms numberStefansson Mss-98, Box 9, Folder 5
AbstractCorrespondence, newspaper articles, and other material related to the ill-fated 1921 expedition to Wrangel Island.
Persistent Identifier
Stef. Arctic Ex.
Blackfoot, Idaho
June 22 21
A.J. Taylor
Credit Foncier Bldg
Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
Your letter July June sixteen am wiring
Lindeberg sell you boat for least reasonable valuation you to sell it to company for shares ^
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to be given him stop with further reference publicity tell papers company being formed by public spirited Canadians partly because they believe money can be made in north but mainly
and because they desire for reasons of national advantage to draw attention to resources already discovered in north by Stefansson stop use
(2) your imagination along that line my belief is that the best way to conceal our immediate purpose is to center people's minds on some other supposed object wire me when money is needed.
V. Stefansson
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