stefansson-wrangel-09-13-051-001

September 27th 1923.

Dear Taylor,

Mr. Brewer has shown me the carbon of a letter he
has written you. He has been more disturbed than I
was over the text of your cablegram which came yesterday,
although it worried me a good deal too. Apparently I
have failed to make clear to you the situation over here
in England.

I give below the text of your cablegram as received
yesterday morning and of mine despatched last night:-

TO: STEFANSSON INFALLIBLE LONDON: 26 SEP 1923:

NOICE RETURNED TORONTO YESTERDAY RELIEF
EXPEDITION HAS COST IN EXCESS OF ALL MONIES
RECEIVED FOUR THOUSAID DOLLARS WHICH MUST BE
CABLED IMMEDIATELY AS ACCOUNTS PRESSING IN
ADDITION WE OWE CRAWFORDS WAGES TWENTY TWO
HUNDRED WHICH YOU MUST ALSO SEND NOT LATER
THAN SIXTY DAYS STOP AMOUNT REALIZED FROM
SALE OF FURS ALREADY USED IN PAYING ACCOUNTS
STOP NOICE LEAVING TONIGHT FOR NEWYORK WILL
TURN OVER KNIGHTS DIARY TO WILCOX NOICE SAYS
SIBERIAN SEARCH USELESS

TO: TAYLOR COMBUSCO TORONTO. SEPT 26 1923 :

RELIEF FUNDS BORROWED BY MY FRIEND ON
MORTGAGE STRICTLY IN HOPE SAVING LIVES
WRANGELL NO MORE MONEY OBTAINABLE ENGLAND
STOP MY LECTURES BEGIN LATE OCTOBER WHEN I
CAN PAY CRAWFORDS AND OTHER RELATIVES FROM
PROCEEDS SEE NO HOPE EXCEPT MY EARNING
POWER HOW ABOUT MONEY FROM NEWSPAPER
ALLIANCE SOME MEMBERS BRITISH CABINET
STRONGLY FAVOR WRANGELL BUT DECISION NOW
DEPENDS CANADIAN PREMIER STOP UNABLE UNDER-
STAND EXCESS NOICE EXPENDITURES BEYOND
ESTIMATES GIVEN BY HIM.

Mr. Brewer is very busy and expects to be able to
spend in America only the time that the "Leviathan" is
in dock. According to the schedule she lands in New