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City Club,
55 West 44th Street
New York City

December 3, 1924

Mr. Griffith Brewer,
Wright Airplane Company, Ltd.,
London, England.

Dear Mr. Brewer:

Upon my return from Brazil where I have been con-
valescing from an illness which was imminent when you were here
last fall, I have conducted an investigation on certain charges
made against me by Mr. Stefansson which I am told resulted in
your demand that I be put under arrest. Believing you to be an
honest man I am going to tell you in detail of my financial rela-
tions with Stefansson Exploration & Development Company, with the
assurance that if you find my story contradicts Mr. Stefansson's
you will not stop until you have satisfied yourself which is the
true one.

I was in New York in the winter of 1922-23 planning
to go north in the summer in charge of a moving picture expedition
to Coronation Gulf. I had heard that the Crawford party then
on Wrangel Island had left Alaska in 1921 with a rather meagre
outfit conspicuous for its lack of an umiak and other walrus
hunting equipment, that two of the four men were but boys without
Arctic experience and that the party was without Eskimo hunters.
This knowledge was disquieting to say the least. When Captain
Bernard arrived in New York I heard more about the unfortuna[...]
expedition and I also had a very long talk with Mr. Taylo[...]