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in pencil in top right margin [1972]

Jack: underlined: Destroy after reading -

233 N. Bliss Anchorage, AK 99504 August 15th Dear Frank - added in different ink and circled: Mead

   I was going to start this letter last night but we got company and I was interrupted.  Tonight Eldon showed me the enclosed article about the Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa which mentions our old friend Hobo Benson.  Hayes used to correspond with him and he always visited when he came thru Chicago on his yearly trek to Britt.  Notice even the snide reference to the wobblies.
    I had a letter from Helene Vexer.  You may remember that Jimmy corresponded with her and since I am here, close to Mt. McKinley and the places where her father is sometimes remembered, sometimes maligned, I, too, write whenever anyone refers to Dr. Cook.  Last year, for example, one of the local free papers which records some Alaska history, mentioned Dr. Cook's climb to Mt. McKinley disparagingly and now this year she has written an article in rebuttal.  Her health was bad last year but she is now fully recovered.  She asked what I remembered about the publication of Return from the Pole.  Jack got the manuscript from Eileen O'Connor and Pelligrini and Cudahy published it and he visited Helene in Buffalo but that's about all I remember.  Do you recall anything more?  I'll bet Jimmy would have remembered some more details.