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her reasons in a letter to Morris K. 
Jesup, president of the Museum: “The 
meteorites are all I have and I feel 
that I should make an effort to turn 
them into money and invest it so that 
my children will have something with 
which they can be educated and fitted 
to earn their living. . . . Mrs. Jesup 
would scold me for bothering you but 
what can I do? ... I have come to 
the conclusion that it is much easier 
to go to the Arctic and do the thing 
you are interested in and want to do 
than it is to stay at home, bring up 
the children, fight your husband’s bat- 
tles and look out for bread and butter 
for the family. I think hereafter I will 
do the exploring and let Mr. Peary 
take care of the home life.” 
After bargaining for several years, 
Mrs. Peary and the Museum agreed 
on a price of $40,000. It is interesting 
to note that, in 1979, moving the three 
meteorites from the Planetarium to 
the new hall — a distance of a few hun- 
dred yards — cost the Museum more 
than $100,000. 
The new hall is the best of several 
meteorite halls in the Museum’s his- 
tory, thanks to the generosity of Ar- 
thur Ross, a Museum trustee, and the 
expertise of Martin Prinz, curator of 
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