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Correspondence from William Brooks Cabot to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1930-1946, part 3

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Dear[?] Mrs Eckstorm,
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Dec. 5 / 34
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Am glad to hear that Barkahym[?] relation[?] is interesting. The Mattanawcauk[?] idea is [illegible], as daring[?] up a third claimant[?] in the case. You see, I was perfectly[underlined] satisfied with the little cut -off islands as the basis till I got to Lincoln. Then Hubbard's meaning[?] is a fourth. I've[?] no doubt some of the old words in common use have gone out + equivalents come in, as [illegible] is Agamenticus, which no Indian I have put it to has made anything at all of. The present description would be from another radical.
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Hereabounds + south ward we put
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Dear Mrs Eckstorm,
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Am glad to hear.  That Barkahegan relation is interesting. The Mattanawcook idea is distressing, as starting up a third claimant in the case. You see, I was perfectly [one underlined] satisfied with the little cut-off islands as the basis till I got to Lincoln. Then Hubbard's meaning is a fourth. I've no doubt some of the old words in common use have gone out & equivalents come in, as apparently is Agamenticus, which no Indian I have put it to has made anything at all of. The present description would be from another radical.
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Hereabouts & southward we get two forms for that island case. The usual one is chip- or kip-.  Shut off, plugged. The other form is in pem-, like pemaquid & pamunkeg.
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Your meaning for Agamenticus is most reasonable, to me. Since writing last I have been playing with the harbor idea,

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447 Dec. 5 / 34

Dear Mrs Eckstorm,

Am glad to hear. That Barkahegan relation is interesting. The Mattanawcook idea is distressing, as starting up a third claimant in the case. You see, I was perfectly [one underlined] satisfied with the little cut-off islands as the basis till I got to Lincoln. Then Hubbard's meaning is a fourth. I've no doubt some of the old words in common use have gone out & equivalents come in, as apparently is Agamenticus, which no Indian I have put it to has made anything at all of. The present description would be from another radical. Hereabouts & southward we get two forms for that island case. The usual one is chip- or kip-. Shut off, plugged. The other form is in pem-, like pemaquid & pamunkeg.

Your meaning for Agamenticus is most reasonable, to me. Since writing last I have been playing with the harbor idea,