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KENNETH ROBERTS KENNEBUNKPORT MAINE

December 16, 1950

Mrs. Hilda MacLeod Jacob Maine State Library Augusta, Maine

Dea,r Mrs. Jacob:

Yes: that was too high. [1 line handwritten after salutation]

I have a big vellum copy of the grant made in 1631 to Robert Trelawny and Moses Goodyear, original signed by Ferdinand and Edward Gorges and the Earl of Warwick. The grant was for Casco Bay and thence northward "into the Maine Land". It's giant folio, and the copy was made in 1768. If the Maine State Library can afford to have this framed and put to use, I'll make it a present of the grant.

Will you help me get some information? I found, some time ago, that C. A. Stephens titles, When Life Was Young [title underlined] and the other three of the Old Squire's [title underlined] titles, are today unobtainable. Huston says he has lots of calls for them, but can't get them. I advertised in the Publishers Weekly, but got no offers.

So I proposed to Doubleday that we try to get the rights, and republish the four Old Squire titles under one cover with an introduction by me. This suggestion is still cooking.

What I'd like to have you find out for me is whether there is a continuing call for these books in your library, in the Bangor Library, and in other Maine libraries.

Sincerely, Kenneth Roberts [signature]

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