stefansson-wrangel-09-20-023

Stef Arctic Ex John Maurer

August 23, 1922.

Dear Mr. Maurer:

The schooner Teddy Bear, under command of one of the most experienced arctic navigators, Captain Joe Bernard, sailed from Nome Sunday afternoon, August 20th, for Wrangel Island. With good luck they should be back in two weeks.

I have given instructions that a 500-word telegram shall be sent to our Vancouver office when the party returns to Nome, and you will see the news the morning papers as quickly as I do.

The Teddy Bear carried three white men and some Eskimos who are to spend the next winter on Wrangel Island. I am hoping that one of the men who were there this year will remain another year in command of the newcomers, but I do not know which it will be.

Mr. John Maurer, New Philadelphia, Ohio.