Correspondence from Ada Blackjack to Vilhjalmur Stefansson
- Title
- Correspondence from Ada Blackjack to Vilhjalmur Stefansson
- Description
- Copy of correspondence from Ada Blackjack to Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. In the letter, Blackjack states that she is sick and in need of money. She asks Stefansson to pay her the remaining $200 owed her for her story of the events during the failed Wrangel Island Expedition. Blackjack was the sole survivor of the expedition. Stefansson claimed to have paid Blackjack all she was owed, while Blackjack maintained she was never compensated for her story.
- Date
- June 28, 1950
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- letters
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- Local Identifier
- 0021-s1-b7-fe-i3
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- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Women's History
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- Inglis Fletcher Papers from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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