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Correspondence from William Brooks Cabot to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1930-1946, part 2
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| − | + | [Imprinted letterhead at top center:] 447 Marlborough St. | |
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| + | Dear Mrs. Eckstorm, | ||
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| + | It is some your fault if I start up instantly after your letter. Anyway, I am sure you are used to it. That Nagwamkeag is [one underlined] queer, but I have no footing up there, down here I cut-a-cut myself sometimes, often to later shame. It is lucky our forbears did not perpetuate many but the plain names, certainly in the north, Labrador, I was helpless where a touch of imagination or whimsy came in: rather often an Indian would say "Not my country", & not try, though the location might not be far. My trip-up on Nagwamkeag is present Chauncy Pond near here, a fine round affair. Its name we have as Naggawoomcom. No fast water about & the mound idea fits well. Could a mounding up of the water at the right stage be the motion, it can be very striking in such rivers, & disconcerting. | ||
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| + | Re names not too plain There was a small stream north with a name looking as if something had happened to some cloth; all I could think of was cover canvas, but the name was not new & canvas covers were. It comes out this way - where the winter [?] path comes to a | ||
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[Imprinted letterhead at top center:] 447 Marlborough St.
May 6/34
Dear Mrs. Eckstorm,
It is some your fault if I start up instantly after your letter. Anyway, I am sure you are used to it. That Nagwamkeag is [one underlined] queer, but I have no footing up there, down here I cut-a-cut myself sometimes, often to later shame. It is lucky our forbears did not perpetuate many but the plain names, certainly in the north, Labrador, I was helpless where a touch of imagination or whimsy came in: rather often an Indian would say "Not my country", & not try, though the location might not be far. My trip-up on Nagwamkeag is present Chauncy Pond near here, a fine round affair. Its name we have as Naggawoomcom. No fast water about & the mound idea fits well. Could a mounding up of the water at the right stage be the motion, it can be very striking in such rivers, & disconcerting.
Re names not too plain There was a small stream north with a name looking as if something had happened to some cloth; all I could think of was cover canvas, but the name was not new & canvas covers were. It comes out this way - where the winter [?] path comes to a