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SACO 1685 Commonwealth Ave (3) Boston, Massachusetts 9 November 1930

Dear Mrs Eckstorm This week I went into the frigid cavern of the Boston Storage Warehouse Co. to excavate some of my stuff packed in boxes, which I have not seen for ten years. I [illegible] some books desired and numbers otherwise. Among the former was all of Tookers[?] written work (published in book or pamphlets form.) In her Indian Place names of Long Island 9p. 220) I noted Sacut[underlined], a pond in No. Hempstead, which her properly analyzes or from Sauk[underlined], an outlet of a pond - appx ut[underlined] - finishing with the definition "at the stream flowing out of a pond". To this he adds: "Saco in Maine is another form of the word." Is it? I think Tooker, for whom I have unusual admiration is an Algonkian scholar, lacked the necessary information about the form of the word Saco as found in the Early writers and docu-ments. I find the following English spellings:- 1614 Smith. Description of Newby. p. 9. Sawacatuck 1616 ". General Histone[?]. Feb[?]. VI. 203 Sowocotuck 1622 Pres [illegible] for New England. Brief Narr. Sawaguatock 1622 Grants to Lenox and Arundel by N.E. Connect[?] Sawahquatock 1629 Grant to Oldham & Vines (Y.D. I pt. 1 p 8) Swackacock 1629 Grant to Leon & Bonython[?] (Y.D. II p 111) Swauckadocke I think it clearly apparent that Tooker did not have these spellings before him and made a "running" reference to Saco as now written and pronounced.