stefansson-wrangel-09-13-039-001

Seeing him

TORONTO, ONTARIO,
1107 Bank of Hamilton Bldg.,
September 11th, 1923.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson Esq.,
New Court,
Middle Temple,
London W.C.2,
England.

Dear Stefansson:-

I have just returned from the Pacific Coast
and have received your interesting letters and all your cables
promptly.

I am sure you have had a very trying time in
your negotiations in England, but I hope that you have been
compensated in some degree by the number of interesting people
that you have met, and by the kindness that I am sure has been
shown you in many quarters.

I think you are thoroughly in touch with every-
thing of importance that has taken place, and I cabled you on
Saturday and gave you to the best of my ability the present
situation.

I am enclosing now a clipping from the Mail &
Empire of Saturday which is unnecessarily vicious - so it seems
to me - also a clipping from the Star of September 4th in which
Mr. Tyrrell is quoted as having made some unkind statements
that might well enough be left unsaid, but, in the main, the
press has been remarkably free from personal references.

The whole public are naturally sympathetic with
Crawford.

I have written to both Noice and LeBourdais as
per copies attached, and I expect to hear from Noice about the
14th or 15th, and I hope to have him in Toronto about the 20th.
We will know then what records he has brought with him, and
what value these are likely to have to the newspapers and maga-
zines. I have a fear that Crawford has taken his diary with
him and that they are probably gone.