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BRANCH OFFICES: NOME, ALASKA SAN FRANCISCO CABLE: LOMEN SUBSIDIARIES: ALASKA LIVESTOCK a PACKING COMPANY ARCTIC TRANSPORT COMPANY LOMEN COMMERCIAL COMPANY NUNIVAK DEVELOPMENT COMPANY [[note]] Recd 1-3-30 [[/note]] NORTHWESTERN LIVESTOCK CORPORATION COLMAN BUILDING December 17, 1934 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Dr. L. M. Waugh Medical Center 630 West 168th St. New York City Dear Doctor Waugh: Yours under date of December 13th received today and we are all delighted to learn that you plan continuing your work among the northern Eskimo. First, to answer your direct questions: (a) Etolin would make a good base. (b) Your assistants should be secured at your Alaskan base, and Eskimos would perhaps be preferable to whites. (c) You should first acquaint the native people, as well as the whites, with the nature of your work as that will very likely make a difference in their charges to you. (d) It would be safe to travel from Nunivak to Nelson Island in a boat of the character and size you mention, but it would be necessary to pick your weather and run for it. The distance is not so great, but what you could cross in two to three hours. As to your main base, offhand I would advise shipping your boat on the SS TUPPER to Bethel as you can reach that point by plan any time--weather permitting. We would prefer to ship your boat on the SS ARTHUR J. BALDWIN to Etolin where our station, under command of Paul Ivanoff is located. The advantage of making Etolin your base would be the services and advice of Paul Ivanoff. He speaks the language of the Nunivak Island people as well as the dialects of the Nelson Islanders and mainland Eskimos. He has a bent for the scientific and would and could appreciate what your work would mean to the native people.