THE NATIRAR ASSOCIATION, INC.

A New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation

Federal EIN: 134050294

c/o W. Barry Thomson 30 Fifth Avenue, # 12 -J

New York, New York 10011

Tel/fax: 212-228-6972

CA: 917-538-5925

E-mail: thomson@natirar.org

 

March 12, 2003

Mr. Palmer Stevens

3248 Woodside Court

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48304

 

Re: Etak / Te Vega / Yacht of Walter Graeme Ladd

Dear Mr. Stevens:

Per your request, enclosed is a photocopy of the specifications document for a yacht designed by Cox & Stevens for Walter Graeme Ladd. Although the yacht's name does not appear in the document, and the document is undated, I am quite certain the document pertains to the Etak (an anagram for Mr. Ladd's wife's first name, Kate Macy Ladd), which was built for Mr. Ladd in the 1930's and is now known as the Te Vega.

For your information, two Ul copies and one partial copy of the original document were recently found among a number of other documents (unrelated to the yacht) in a farm building at Mr. and Mrs. Ladd's former estate, Natirar (an anagram for the North Branch of the Raritan River, which flows across the estate) located in the municipalities of Peapack-Gladstone, Far Hills, and Bedminster, in Somerset County, New Jersey.

I hope you find the enclosed document to be informative. We only ask that attribution be given to The Natirar Association, Inc.

Best regards.

Sincerely,

 

W. Barry Thomson