Did Peary Reach North Pole April 6, 1909?
(page 4 of 7) Had I known how matters stood when we were first married things might be very different now. But I do not feel equal to the separation from you again…(1893) It is useless for me to say take care of yourself for my sake because that has lost its effect long ago but for the sake of the thing you love best in this world. success and glory, you ought to be careful…(1898) Surely God will not take (Marie) from me too. She is all I have left to live for. I mean the only one to whom it makes any real difference…(March 1900, after Francine’s death) You will wish yourself back with your sleek fat Eskimo woman after you have seen me… (April 1900) When she wrote that last message, Jo was apparently unaware of her husband’s relationship with the Eskimo woman Alakasingwah, who was to bear him two sons. When she learned of it later that year, from Alakasingwah herself, it must have been a stunning blow. It is interesting that in her letters to Peary up to 1900, she generally sal
