The Unsolved Oak Island Mystery 3-Book Bundle. Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe

for $440. In another, Dad mentions that he hopes Fred got the $1,500 job he was bidding on; possibly part of that had been earmarked for Oak Island. Throughout the years of Dad’s search, Fred worked assiduously at his plumbing and steamfitting business, and his son, Eddie, told me that many times his father’s attitude was, “Twenty dollars for us, twenty dollars for the Restalls. We can’t have them starving to death out there.”

      In December, my husband flew down from Ontario to bring a diamond drill to the island, then stayed for a few weeks drilling with Dad and Bobby.

      Dec. 12, 1961

       Dear Lee: