| Summary: | Letter from Edward Curtis to Harriet Leitch promising to send her more than 200 reviews of The North American Indian supplied by his clipping agency. He discusses rediscovering his writings relating to his trip to the Arctic and a daily log that recorded his team's experiences in the field. Curtis also recounts how he acquired his bad leg, stating "While making a motion picture of a large whale, he became annoyed and with his tail smashed our whaling boat with a swat of his tail. I came out of the smashing with a broken hip. It's more than twenty years since that mishap and I still limp slightly. At the time of the northern trip I limped badly." Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 pixels per inch, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to convert master image to JPEG format. Master image file size: 321,121,832 bytes [3 files]. [November 24, 1948, Page 1] Nov. 24-48 My dear Miss Leitch, I trust you will pardon me for being so slow in replying to you[r] last letter. I’ve had a trying back set in condition and was compelled to keep to my bed. Prior to that I managed to make a good start on the information you need. At the time of laying the yarn [illegible] and I was in the midst of a howling storm in the Arctic Ocean [?]. I’ll continue the story from there. On the 26 of the month I will try to mail eight large sheets containing more than two hundred reviews of the North American Indian. I will add that in all the reviews [illegible] by the clipping agency I never saw one which voiced adverse criticism. I may be somewhat slow in sending you the final materials, I am not strong enough to do much desk work. Yesterday I spent in bed today I have got off a flood of letters. [November 24, 1948, Page 2] At this point of my letter I had a thought. It was regarding the day by day log of my last trip to the Arctic [?]. I rummaged through a large cartin [sic] of old scripts and found the typed copy. Its 74 pages of closely typed material = more than twenty thousand words. It’s more than ...
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