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Correspondence from William Brooks Cabot to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1930-1946, part 1

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-safe for a placeholder word. Without looking up the cook[?] meaning [?] [?] names [?] this way that got spelled- cook[?] +[?] are laud[?] names: Her[?] [?] is[?] is cheescook or -cake, a steep slope. My guess is for[?] [?] [?] [?]. [?] [?] being[?] a limited or[?] enclosed space: whether the -ook implies water there, + there[?] would be anyway, I won't take time[?] to try +[?] find out- it might take a day or two.
+safe for a plantation word. Without looking up the -cook meaning we have names down this way that get spelled- cook & are land names; the commonest is cheescook or -cake, a steep slope. My guess is for mero [?] - comuk - cook, etc comuk being a limited or enclosed space: whether the -ook implies water there, + there would be anyway, I won't take time to try to find out - it might take a day or two.
-About Monhegan, I don't think there is one chance in a lot that the [?] I have[?] talked it [?] with are wrong; it was [crossed out] fairly[?] the important and well known place of the coast. That is, [?] general neighborhood. [?] the [?] support of other [?] of [?] names here.
+About Monhegan, I don't think there is one chance in a lot that the Indians I have talked it over with are wrong; it was and [one crossed out] fairly the important and well known place of the coast, that is, the general neighborhood. Thus the perfect support of other instances of the name here.
 Sincerely
 W. B. Cabot

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safe for a plantation word. Without looking up the -cook meaning we have names down this way that get spelled- cook & are land names; the commonest is cheescook or -cake, a steep slope. My guess is for mero [?] - comuk - cook, etc comuk being a limited or enclosed space: whether the -ook implies water there, + there would be anyway, I won't take time to try to find out - it might take a day or two.

About Monhegan, I don't think there is one chance in a lot that the Indians I have talked it over with are wrong; it was and [one crossed out] fairly the important and well known place of the coast, that is, the general neighborhood. Thus the perfect support of other instances of the name here.

Sincerely W. B. Cabot