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KENNETH L. Roberts KENNEBUNK Beach MAINE

August 30th; 1929 Dear Mrs. Fuller:- I am blocking out a novel that needs, for a part of its background, the experiences of a Maine ship-captain in Dartmoor Prison 1n 1815---during, that is to say, the War of 1812.

I have the Prisoners' Memoirs, of Dartmoor Prison; N.Y.; 1852; and a similar book compiled by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; but I want all available material on the subject. I would be very grateful if you would look through your shelves and see if you can locate some books that might be valuable to me. There might be something along the line of voyages; made around that tiime by local men, that would help me to lick my plot into shape. It you could send me a list of books that seem to you to be along the line of what I need, I will check off the ones that I might use.

I spent a day recently with your friend Ensign Otis; and he helped me in the purchase of a piece of land on the Georges River. He thought that there was a great deal or genealogical material in the Augusta library: possibly even records of Maine ships. If this is the case, please let me ask you whether there can be found any record; anywhere;· of my great- grandfather Daniel Nason. who was a ship-

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