stefansson-wrangel-09-14-018

Read to Mr. Pickering

New York, October 20, 1923.

North American Newspaper Alliance, 63 Park Row, New York City.

Dear Sirs:

In my conversation with Mr. Pickering the other day, I understood that he considered your Company to have received from Toronto by telegram, or otherwise, some intimation that Mr. Harold Noice represented Mr. A. J. Taylor or the Stefansson Arctic Exploration and Development Company, Ltd., or both, not only in receiving the $3000. for cables from Nome, but also in negotiating with you a further sale under the option clause in your contract. After that conversation, I telegraphed Mr. Taylor, asking whether this was correct. In reply to the telegram, which he received only last night (apparently because of his absence from Toronto), he called me on Long Distance telephone this morning and made the following statement: He admits that he did authorize Mr. Harold Noice to represent us in collecting the original $3000., but denies that he gave him any authorization to represent us in negotiating further sales, or, indeed, in any other further negotiations. I am accordingly writing the attached formal letter, so that you shall understand clearly that in dealing with Mr. Noice you are not dealing with anyone who represents either Mr. Taylor personally or the Stefansson Arctic Exploration and Development Company, Ltd.

I have already told Mr. Pickering in conversation both about the serious financial losses the Company will suffer through the action of Mr. Harold Noice and also several other distressing circumstances connected with the case.