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�Into the form of a memorandum, or outline, to try out my arguments, and get my material into as condensed form as possible. It is not, I suppose, a matter of great importance, but before I could decide about our Fryeburg Sabatis I had to try to determine what did really happen on Arnold's march, and now having put in so much time I feel inclined to finish what I have begun, as soon as the history of Lovell becomes a little less urgent. I might at least make a club paper sometime, and at Augusta they have been interested, and have offered to place on file anything I may dig up.
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I do not know whether this interests you or not. If it doesn't I hope you will not hesitate to say so; if it does I shall be glad to let you know as soon as my memorandum is completed, and to send it to you, with return postage, if ever you have a bit of leisure in which to look it over. But I do not wish to take a moment of your time away from more important matters. You have my conclusions, anyway, and perhaps I have made them detailed enough so that you can, from this letter, form an opinion as to whether I am "off the track" or not. Or perhaps I am just covering ground that has already been covered.
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I have read with a great deal of interest your article in the New England Quarterly on "Pequacket[?] and Parsons Symines"[?], and I hope you are doing the story of the fight. Don't let me take any of your time from it even to answer this letter! I can wait.
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Most sincerely, and gratefully,
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Charlotte E. Hobbs
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"In writing on page 1 the name of the Indian with Enneos as Sabattis, I have followed the spelling of Senter[?] who is the only contemporary writer giving him a name. It is of course just one more spelling of Sabatis.

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�Into the form of a memorandum, or outline, to try out my arguments, and get my material into as condensed form as possible. It is not, I suppose, a matter of great importance, but before I could decide about our Fryeburg Sabatis I had to try to determine what did really happen on Arnold's march, and now having put in so much time I feel inclined to finish what I have begun, as soon as the history of Lovell becomes a little less urgent. I might at least make a club paper sometime, and at Augusta they have been interested, and have offered to place on file anything I may dig up. I do not know whether this interests you or not. If it doesn't I hope you will not hesitate to say so; if it does I shall be glad to let you know as soon as my memorandum is completed, and to send it to you, with return postage, if ever you have a bit of leisure in which to look it over. But I do not wish to take a moment of your time away from more important matters. You have my conclusions, anyway, and perhaps I have made them detailed enough so that you can, from this letter, form an opinion as to whether I am "off the track" or not. Or perhaps I am just covering ground that has already been covered. I have read with a great deal of interest your article in the New England Quarterly on "Pequacket[?] and Parsons Symines"[?], and I hope you are doing the story of the fight. Don't let me take any of your time from it even to answer this letter! I can wait. Most sincerely, and gratefully, Charlotte E. Hobbs "In writing on page 1 the name of the Indian with Enneos as Sabattis, I have followed the spelling of Senter[?] who is the only contemporary writer giving him a name. It is of course just one more spelling of Sabatis.