Canadian explorer and ethnologist (1879–1962) best known for his expeditions to the Arctic and for his studies of the native peoples there. Two items: TLS signed “V. Stefansson,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, April 1, 1935. Stefansson writes to Zoe A. Thralls, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Pennsylvania, in full: “The reply to your letter of March 22 is that I am not forgetting my engagement with the Geography Club of Western Pennsylvania and that I am looking forward to it”; and a program from the Joint Meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association and the Annual History Conference of the University of Pittsburgh, April 19–20, 1935, signed on the third page in ink. In very good condition, with intersecting folds and light creasing to the letter, light toning, a few trivial spots of soiling and a pencil notation to the program. RRAuction COA.
