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Since my return from Brazil I have unearthed the letters
and telegrams which clearly prove all of the foregoing contentions
and I intend to bring suit against Mr. Stefansson for the recovery
of the $1500 which he has prevented me from getting for over a
year.

One of the many stories Stefansson has put into circula-
tion with the apparent intention of discrediting me is that when
I first arrived in New York I was penniless and that he fed me
for two years. As a matter of fact I had made $4,000 in fur on
my expedition/of 1918—1921 to Coronation Gulf and when I returned from the
Arctic in 1921 I met Stefansson who was then in financial diffi-
culties and loaned him a considerable amount of money. Later on
when I sold one of my Ethnological collections to the Heye Museum
I again loaned him money. Stefansson eventually paid back the
money in small checks. The only foundation for this story
was that during the winter previous to my departure for Wrangel
Island I had borrowed funds from him for the purpose of finishing
a book I was writing about his Canadian Arctic Expedition and
had agreed to pay him out of the royalties of the book. Mr.
Stefansson was very anxious that I should finish the book and
unless he loaned me money for this purpose I would have to
discontinue that writing. The other day I met Stefansson and
charged him with these lies he had been circulating. At first he
denied that I had ever loaned him any money and then apparently
realizingthat as my lawyer and another a very well known scientist
were present, and would remember his assertions, admitted that