stefansson-wrangel-09-04-016-001

Knight's letters of this sent sent to J. I. Knight

(COPY)

February 23rd, 1921.

Dear Mr. Maurer:

During your stay on Wrangel Island did you ever go any considerable
distance inland? Please write me as fully as you can about the vegetation
of Wrangel Island, both from your own observations and from anything you
may have heard from the other men who had been inland.

Did you see lichens, mosses or grasses? Were flowers common?
On what parts of the island did you find the most driftwood and what kind
of wood was it? Around Herschel Island the driftwood is chiefly spruce
with a little pine and cotton wood. On Wrangel Island I have supposed
that you might have found driftwood from the Pacific which would presumably
be in part composed of logs of larger variety than those you see around
Herschel Island.

I have noted what you said in one of your stories about killing
a considerable number of foxes towards the end of your stay. Did it strike
you that Wrangel Island is a good location for fox trapping or walrus hunt-
ing?

I hope you will be able to reply soon, as I am anxious to get
these facts before my book goes to press.

Mr. Frederich W. Maurer,
New Philadelphia, Ohio.

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(TELEGRAM)

Du Valle, Wash.

V. Stefansson,
Care Ellison White,
Chautauqua, Preston, Idaho.

Can you give me definite information as to prospects of going north anxious
to accept proposition you offered but should know soon before close of