Fox news re letter This is a different letter than any we’ve seen. The TV spot says the letter is still in the possession of the guy who found it and he hasn’t decided whether he’s going to sell it or give it to the museum. (Wanna guess what he’ll do?)
It is not, as claimed, the last known letter sent by Noonan. It was sent from Bandoeng, Java on June 23, 1937. We have a letter he sent from Koepang, Timor to Helen Day on June 27. Fred sent three letters to Helen, one from Fortaleza, Brazil on June 5, one from Bandoeng on June 22, and the Koepang letter on the 27th. Those letters were mostly just recounting the flight so far and they track with what Amelia was reporting for the newspapers. This new letter seems to be pretty much the same thing. No new information. All three letters are on the
TIGHAR website The weird thing to me is that this is ANOTHER case of Noonan writing to a young girl. Helen Day was just 17 when Fred became friends with her when he worked for Pan Am in Miami. She was 24 when he wrote to her during the world flight. Helen's son, from whom we got the letters, described his mother as “a firecracker in those days.” Noonan’s language in the letters is, at times a bit creepy.
Now here’a another girl, Beverly Hunter. he supposedly started writing to in 1935 when she was 15, so in 1937 she’s 17. Noonan is 44.