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and get busy as soon as the new Transatlantic route is established.
This means that she has very few aeroplanes to spare for assisting
private expeditions

I think you have more hope of help from home. At the same
time our air work here is going to advance pretty rapidly, and by
the time you are ready things may be different. So my advice to you
is to approach the Canadian authorities directly. The chief people
are those connected with the North-west Terrorities Commission.
There is no Commissioner at present, but among the Deputy-Commissioners
are Dr. Camsell and Sir James McBrien, both of whom you know. I
suggest your approaching them direct, putting the matter before them,
and I will do what I can in private conversation.

Since I have come to Canada I am completely captured by
the lure of the far north. I hope to go to the western Arctic next
year, and the following year, if possible, to go to Ellesmereland.
I wonder if you will get Sergeant Stallworthy's services. When I
last talked to him he was a married man, and regarded his Arctic
days as over.

With every good wish.

Yours ever,