stefansson-wrangel-09-14-065-001

Copy of a letter delivered to me by Harold Noice at
Seattle, Wash. Sept. 17, 1923, addressed to Mrs. J. I. Knight;

"Wrangle Island, January 4 1923

" Dear Mother;-

Crawford and I are about to leave here for Nome
in a day or so ,and as accidents are as likely to happen
to one in this counrty as any where else I am leaving this
letter for you with Maurer & Galle in case some unforseen
occurrance happens to me.

I am not in the least afraid of my welfare but 'safety first'.

I am also leaving a letter for the manager of the Stef.Ex.
& Dev.Co. asking him to send whatever money is due me, to
you. This money, of course you will consider as your own.

However, if something does happen to me, I will be thinking
of you until the very last with all the love any one ever
had for his Mother. This also applies to Dad & Joe.

Love
Lorne ."

State of Oregon )
) SS
County of Yamhill )

I, J.I. Knight, being first duly sworn,depose and say on
oath that, the foregoing is a true and correct copy of
the originel letter now in my possession and of the whole
thereof. I have prepared this copy and I know it to be
a true and correct and complete copy of the original.

J. I. Knight

Subscribed and sworn to before me this Third day of November,
1923

H. C. Gilden
Notary Public for Oregon
My commission expires
January 29, 1924;