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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Job" data-source="post: 2807890" data-attributes="member: 37196"><p><strong>Starkweather Response to Dr. Vitus X. Lambert</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><p style="text-align: center">August 30, 1933</p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Dr. Vitus X. Lambert</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Ivy Hall Apartments</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">10 East 33rd Street</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Baltimore, Maryland</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">USA</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Dear Dr. Lambert,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Thank you for your letter of August 27th. It is indeed an honor, sir, to accept your application to become a team member of the Starkweather—Moore Expedition of 1933. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I must admit, Dr. Lambert, that your outstanding credentials and references have renewed my confidence in our success!  How could we do otherwise in the expert care of a physician with accolades from the world-reknowned Johns Hopkins University as well as L'Université de Genève and Cambridge University?  I suspect that your studies of the effects of harsh temperatures on the human condition will prove especially insightful, especially in light of the fact that you are obviously capable of handling yourself in adverse environments so as to better attend to our team.  </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">This is indeed an auspicious beginning!  Sir, you should know that for ever after this expedition, your name will be writ large in the annuls of history.  You will be regarded as legend! The Starkweather-Moore Antarctic Expedition of 1933 will be long remembered as one of momentous consequence having swept back the curtain of mankind's knowledge and exposed the secrets of the ancients for all to study and admire for centuries.  We will be giants amongst history's greatest!  I salute your spirit, Sir!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">As soon as you are able, please be so kind as to report to Dr. Moore at the SS Gabrielle. Pier 74-B, 12th Avenue at 34th, next to the Italian Royal Mail berth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Sincerely,</p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></p><p></span><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">James Starkweather</span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Expedition Leader</span></p><p></span><p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy stout'">Amherst Hotel</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy stout'">8th Avenue and 44th Street</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy stout'">New York City, New York</span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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