Letter to Louise Boyd from U.S. War Department - 1942

Letter – July 14, 1942

Letter from Lt. Col. Poole of the U.S. Military Intelligence Office asking her for her “expert services” as a consultant. Louise worked for the War Department for a nominal $1/year providing the U.S. government with maps, photographs, and expertise in the Arctic areas she had explored in the 1930's. A year earlier, at the request of the government she also 'secretly' planned and paid for an expedition to Arctic areas of Baffin Bay to study the effects of polar magnetic fields on radio communications for the National Bureau of Standards. She paid $10,000 from her own bank account to charter the ship, Effie M. Morrissey and its Captain, Robert Bartlett and crew.