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Maurer

August 23, 1922.

Dear Mrs. 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 tele-
gram shall be sent to our Vancouver office when the party
returns to Nome, and you will see the news in 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.

Mrs. Fred Maurer,
Niles, Ohio.