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Maurer

July 13, 1924

Dear Mr. Maurer:

I regret very much that it should have been
necessary for you to write me again as you did on May
7th about the pictures I had promised, but we were so
terribly rushed before leaving that my secretary tells
me the pictures did not get mailed to you until we reached
Honolulu. Still, they must have arrived long ago.

It has been very unfortunate that I was com-
pelled to make this Australian lecture tour, but I felt
I had to earn the money. The chief difficulty is that
I am not able to see the Wrangell Island book through
the press and have had to entrust that work to friends
who cannot do it as well as I might have myself. How-
ever, I am hoping the book will please you when it comes
out, which should be in October or November.

I am expecting to be back in the United
States in early October and am hoping to see you in that
month or in November.

V. Stefansson.

Mr. John Maurer,
New Philadelphia,
Ohio.