stefansson-wrangel-09-14-091-001a

L.P. - No.8.

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24th November 1923.

Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 24th
September, addressed to the Hydrographer of the Navy, I
am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
to inform you that Captain Kellett's chart of his dis-
coveries in the vicinity of Wrangell Island has never
been published, although the information which it con-
tains was used at the time for the amendment of the
Admiralty charts.

2.- After full consideration, My Lords are of
opinion that it would be inadvisable at the present
time for this chart to be published or reproduced, and
They regret that They are in consequence unable to
sanction such reproduction.

3.- I am, however, to forward to you herewith a
tracing from Admiralty chart No.260, as corrected to
1849, which shows the contemporary charting of Kellett's
discoveries, and is more complete for all geographical
purposes than Kellett's chart itself, since the letter
does........

M. Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
New Court,
Middle Temple, E.C. 4.