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

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�Aubig[?] her[?] agyimin[?], and anchorage. If your curious with John Smith's accominticus, which, The - min -, always seemed queer to me. The only -ticus I remember was[?] here in Papaquntiquash[?] at Greenfield[?].
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It is a little squirt of a stream close to some parallel islands in the main Connecticut. I reckon these town, R, names marer[?] The Penobscot than ours farther east are, + I'm not causing[?] and trouble about -ticus as little river[?].
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It wouldn't be strange if you were at some loss to know what to do with the Rand[?] Mic Mac. It makes a
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Aubèry has aggimin, an anchorage. It goes curiously with John Smiths accominticus [first letter i underlined], which, the -min-, always seemed queer to me. The only -ticus I remember near here is in Papaquntiquash at Greenfield. It is a little squirt of a stream close to some parallel islands in the main Connecticut. I reckon these Conn. R. names nearer the Penobscot than ours farther east are, & I'm not raising any trouble about -ticus as little river.
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It wouldn't be strange if you were at some loss to know what to do with the Rand MicMac.  It makes a heathenish dialect to settle to.  For a long time I couldn't get any good at all of it, yet the last year or two it has been a good help. What bothers me about Nudenas [?] is the things he hasn't got. Those missionaries!  What I was hoping about the Stanislaus was that if you got up there you would bag some meaning while you were at it.
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Very Sincerely
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W. B. C.

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Aubèry has aggimin, an anchorage. It goes curiously with John Smiths accominticus [first letter i underlined], which, the -min-, always seemed queer to me. The only -ticus I remember near here is in Papaquntiquash at Greenfield. It is a little squirt of a stream close to some parallel islands in the main Connecticut. I reckon these Conn. R. names nearer the Penobscot than ours farther east are, & I'm not raising any trouble about -ticus as little river.

It wouldn't be strange if you were at some loss to know what to do with the Rand MicMac. It makes a heathenish dialect to settle to. For a long time I couldn't get any good at all of it, yet the last year or two it has been a good help. What bothers me about Nudenas [?] is the things he hasn't got. Those missionaries! What I was hoping about the Stanislaus was that if you got up there you would bag some meaning while you were at it.

Very Sincerely

W. B. C.