stefansson-wrangel-09-12-016

No Ans.

July 11, 1923.

Dear Mr. Stefansson:

I am sending your mail as requested in your cable. I am enclosing copies of carbons of letters that Mr. Taylor has sent me so that you may be fully informed, although you already know the main points by cable.

The $500. check was received from the Canadian Bank of Commerce, thankfully. Unfortunately, Mr. Taylor did not repay me the $200. that I loaned Noice, as I had hoped he would. Instead Mr. Anderson wrote me a letter, saying that when they raised the money for the expedition that would be one of the first bills paid. As it about cleaned me out to advance that, I found it necessary to pay myself back from the $500. you sent and I also paid my salary out of that, as I had a good many personal bills coming due this month. That leaves only $100. of the money, from which I have paid some of the more urgent bills and have about $50. left for emergencies. There are still a lot of bills unpaid, some of them pretty large. Of course, if I receive the $200. from Mr. Anderson I will immediately turn that over to your account and use it for some of the more urgent bills. If you are not going to be back by the first of August, will you please send me another check, informing me that you are doing so?

I sent a copy of a letter to Professor Sollas about ten days ago. The only one I could find was a long one that you wrote when we were in England in 1920. It was about eleven pages of single space typewriting, and contained detailed comments on his book "Primitive Hunters." It had a good deal of information about reindeer and about the habits of Eskimos, so I suppose that is the one of ethnological interest that you had in mind.

Harcourt's sent the books to Mr. Brewer. I hope they arrived safely.

The doctor didn’t take the cast off of Noice's arm after all but told him to leave it on until he got to Nome. I hope it will be all right then.

Sincerely, Olive R. Wilcox