stefansson-wrangel-09-11-113

TORONTO, CANADA Late Saturday Evening.

Dear Mrs Wilcox:

I have just received the following teelgram from Mr Noice:

Signed charter today only suitable vessel. Terms one thousand dollars cash august first fro twelve days. All days thereafter eighty three dollars per day for thirty one days. All days over thirty on e flat rate fifty six dollars per day. If Frozen in must buy vessel for seventhousand five hundred. Must have one years food and ammunition supply for crew and people on wrangel otherwise crew refuse to go. Cost outfit approximately twentyfive hundred dollars subject to being returned ten percent discount. Ten thousand dollars credit must be depositied miners and mercahnts bank august first.

Harold Noice.

I have made no reply and will not do so until hearing from you further.

Yours very truly, A. J. T. Taylor