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Correspondence from William Brooks Cabot to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1930-1946, part 2
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| + | Dear Mrs. Eckstorm, | ||
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| + | Thanks as always, for your going to your [?]. Its fun to have you hitting it along. Incidly [sic] someone gave me big mountains for mattana[?]cork, + aukook is kettle + there is a round kittish hill just north of the lake. You mention Mattaseank as with Mattawamkeag, but it is a stream down from north, parallel with Penobs, + not far away; [insert: from it] empties 2 miles above Mattawamkean mouth, with Penobs, No contour sheet; but what [?] from flat maps hunches toward the long string in Rasles of Meats -, all meaning, bad, my English. [?] [?] gets them (the mats-) all in a list. Along straight dead water shows now, per a dam I [?], + the look of everything gives me, as a woodsman, a poor feeling. | ||
| + | After we talked Wiscasset + my friend sat up again, it cam back that | ||
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�447 Marlborough St.
May 21/34
Dear Mrs. Eckstorm,
Thanks as always, for your going to your [?]. Its fun to have you hitting it along. Incidly [sic] someone gave me big mountains for mattana[?]cork, + aukook is kettle + there is a round kittish hill just north of the lake. You mention Mattaseank as with Mattawamkeag, but it is a stream down from north, parallel with Penobs, + not far away; [insert: from it] empties 2 miles above Mattawamkean mouth, with Penobs, No contour sheet; but what [?] from flat maps hunches toward the long string in Rasles of Meats -, all meaning, bad, my English. [?] [?] gets them (the mats-) all in a list. Along straight dead water shows now, per a dam I [?], + the look of everything gives me, as a woodsman, a poor feeling. After we talked Wiscasset + my friend sat up again, it cam back that