Letter, 1937 Feb. 11, Washington, D.C., to Prof. [W.H.] Hobbs [Ann Arbor].

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Letter, 1937 Feb. 11, Washington, D.C., to Prof. [W.H.] Hobbs [Ann Arbor].

Having met the real Peter Freuchen, corrects an anecdote about a man, mistakenly identified as Freuchen, who once gave her a lock of his beard.

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