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Correspondence from William Brooks Cabot to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1930-1946, part 2

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May 21/34
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May 21 / 34
  
 
Dear Mrs. Eckstorm,
 
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.
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Thanks as always, for your going to your t'writer [sic].  Its fun to have you hitting it along.  Incid'ly [sic] someone gave me big mountains for mattanawcook, & awkook is kettle & there is a round kettling hill just north of the lake.
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After we talked Wiscasset + my friend sat up again, it cam back that
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You mention Mattaseunk as with Mattawamkeag, but it is a stream down from north, parallel with Penobs. & not far away from it [two superscribed]; empties 2 miles above Mattawamkeags mouth, into Penobs.  No contour sheet; but what I get from flat maps hunches toward the long string in Rasles of Mats -, all meaning bad, my English/Ind.  Rasles gets them (the mats-) all in a list.  A long straight dead water shows now, per a dam I assume, & the look of everything gives me, as a woodsman, a poor feeling.
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After we talked Wiscasset & my mind sat up again, it came back that

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[Imprinted letterhead at top center:] 447 Marlborough St.

May 21 / 34

Dear Mrs. Eckstorm,

Thanks as always, for your going to your t'writer [sic]. Its fun to have you hitting it along. Incid'ly [sic] someone gave me big mountains for mattanawcook, & awkook is kettle & there is a round kettling hill just north of the lake.

You mention Mattaseunk as with Mattawamkeag, but it is a stream down from north, parallel with Penobs. & not far away from it [two superscribed]; empties 2 miles above Mattawamkeags mouth, into Penobs. No contour sheet; but what I get from flat maps hunches toward the long string in Rasles of Mats -, all meaning bad, my English/Ind. Rasles gets them (the mats-) all in a list. A long straight dead water shows now, per a dam I assume, & the look of everything gives me, as a woodsman, a poor feeling.

After we talked Wiscasset & my mind sat up again, it came back that