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Stefansson indicated that it would be only few weeks now
before the government would take over the island and the company
would be reimbursed for the total expenditures shown on its books
an amount in excess of $30,000. Not only this but the fact
that the contract I had secured with the trappers would write off
the total expense of the expedition made Mr. Taylor exceedingly
grateful for my services. I turned over all the effects I had
found on the island, records, diaries, documents, etc. to Mr.
Taylor who examined them with me, and I asked his permission to
use the information contained therein in writing additional articles
which I felt certain the Alliance would purchase from me. Mr.
Taylor thought it was the least the company could do to repay me
for my services and it meant no money out of their pockets.
He very gladly gave his permission with the understanding, of course,
that as soon as I had used what I needed I would return the
diaries to the company.

With this understanding I came down to New York
and had a long talk with Mr. Pickering of the Alliance, the
afternoon of the day I arrived.Note letter of Sept 26 day after I left Toronto Mr. Pickering thought that
instead of my writing a second series of articles on the informa-
tion contained in the diaries it would be better to include the
new material in the original 30,000 words and then expand the
series, if necessary, agreeing to pay me an additional $1500
for this new material. This was satisfactory to me.
Mr. Pickering asked me if I had thought to secure written permission
from Taylor because he would have to have confirmation in order