Dear Hilde

As a part of my 2011 Sketchbook Project research for Dirigibles and Submersibles, I've come across a number of WWII era letters that I find both charming and heroic.  As I read these letters, a story began forming in my head - one that seems intent on accompany my drawings.

The story, soon to come, will present itself in a number of letters addressed to Miss Hildegard Stenson of California who has (we assume) hired a scout to search for her brother, a scientist and inventor who has gone missing in WWII Europe.