| Summary: | Written while in Hartford, Connecticut to his mother, Opal Pangborn, Clyde explains how he will be exchanging the Wright J-6 motor with a reliable Wasp 425 horsepower engine and that its reliability is necessary for his world flight. Pangborn also tells his mother about Wiley Post's and Harold Gatty's plan to fly around the world. He comments that their plane, a Lockheed, is considerably faster than the Bellanca but not as dependable in rough fields. He also tells her his planned itinerary of England to Moscow, then across Siberia, the Bering Strait to Alaska, down to Edmonton, Chicago and New York. Two noteworthy experiences that he shares with her are having lunch in Puerto Rico with Governor Theodore Roosevelt, then being invited to lunch in New York again by the governor along with William Vincent Astor (son of hotel developer, John Jacob Astor) and some other "big shots." He closes by saying that he will send her pictures of the Bellanca and his team, and a good, but "rather goofy" charcoal image of himself.
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