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West Brooksville, M·a1ne-Sept. I6 th. , !939. Maine State Library, Augusta Maine. , Miss Hilda 1l<lL eod,,Secratary. Dear Miss Mel eod. Since your letter received yesterday has a personal tone besides the official one, I shall take the libeety of addressing you this time. ,) I am of course delighted that the material I forward.to the State Library is so acceptabl,e,,and the letter youe sent me brings me great.satisfaction, and I shall of course be glad to send you anything else tha~ may be of historial value,like catalogues,J!f. criticisms, etc •.

I wonder if you could now help me with information on the subject of getting up to Katahdin Lake,which I am told offers the best view for painting purposes,of the great mountain. I have written to Caleb Scribner the game waliden who lives at Patten, but as he may be slow in answering,! think it a good idea to address you also.

I hear there is only one place to live which is convenient to the best view of the mountain and that is Cobb~s Camps which is very exjensive,but if I mus~ do it that way,,and there is no other,! shall have to do it that way. But if you have, and pou might easily have,useful information that would help me to make the grade, I should be very glad of it. I would have to g_o of course to Millinocket, and I suppose if I went to the Chamber of Commerce in that town, they would tell me how to get there,,and since it is all very expensive I need to know if there is any way of getting therej· less than the Cobb Camp price, which is NI $7 .oo one way, which is awful, but you wouldn't be likely to know about things like that probably, though if you have booklets or tourist information,that would help some too. I won•t be going up there# from Bangor before early Octobe~,as I want tt to be cold enough to avoid rains,as of course sitting

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