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Avenue, Cleveland, get in touch with Noice on landing. I
think they ought to be able to book him pretty well, espec-
ially for a lecture tour in the autumn. In one of my
messages I suggested that Ellison-White of Portland should
send someone to meet Noice in Seattle.

I have talked with Mr. Christy, the leading lecture
manager in England. He says the arrangements in England
are such that nothing can be done this winter but that he
would like to book Noice for next winter if he can know in
advance what time he would be over here. The money you get
in England is less than half of what Americans are willing
to pay, but it might be a good thing for Noice nevertheless.

There are many reasons why no-one connected with our
Company must make any money out of the Wrangell Island
diaries, eves if they are probably legally our property.
I hope Noice will not feel in any way resentful about this -
I know he wont. Of course he has to live but he can make a
living by lecturing and the prominence will also increase
the saleability of his other writings. Besides, I shall
doubtless be able to find some way of helping him through
next winter in New York on the same basis as last.

I am very glad to hear that the "Star" has invited
Noice to Toronto. I think he should make a good impression -
I am sure he will unless some untoward accident happens.

I am expecting to leave here some time between the
1st and 10th of October. I do not know yet whether I shall
sail for Montreal or New York.

The contributions that have come in to the Wrangell
Island Relief Fund now amount to about £600. The original
gift by The Wright Company of £550 will come ultimately
about £300 from Brewer, £200 from Orville Wright and about
£50 from other stockholders.

I did not reply to your cable asking for a statement as
to the British having [r]enounced Wrangell Island because the
correspondent of the Toronto Star told me he was sending a
long despatch to his paper saying, in effect, that he had
interviewed the Foreign Office who ridiculed the report that
they had made any such announcement. I supposed you would
see that in the "Star" as soon as my cable could possibly
reach you. We are spending a lot of money in any case in
cables. I use them whenever I think necessary but when I
feel reasonably certain that the news despatches are carrying the
information I want you to get I refrain from sending it myself.
In a way such news as the opinions and intentions of the
Foreign Office come with more force from a newspaper correspon-