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Correspondence from Robert E. Moody to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1943

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                                        BOSTON UNIVERSITY
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                                      COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
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                                            688 BOYLSTON STREET
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                                        BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
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                                              December 27, 1943
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Dear Mrs. Eckstorm :
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I have no good excuse for not having acknowledged before your fascinating speculations [?] regarding Pemaquid [?]. Reasons for my reglekt [?] are many, extreme busyness with the A [?] Training [?] Program, illness in my family, etc. But I do feel deeply apologetic for not having thanked you earlier for your generous sharing of a good deal of "food for thought." Have you seen C.K. Bolton : [?] Terra Nova : the northeast coast of America before 1602? I seem to have missed seeing it somehow but I remember hearing Mr. Bolton read a chapter from his manuscript back nearly ten years ago. It was a section called "The [fishenie of bacalaoo".] [?] Awfully dull to hear, too! But your mention of the close connection of the [Baoques and Portuguese] [?] with our coast in early times brought it back to by mind and I began to wonder whether this Bolton had made a real contribution to our early
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history.
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Your explanation of the [shell heaps] [?] interested me more than a little. I had never known before that the Indians dried the [oysters] [?] for [preservation] [?] for food. But isn't it possible that a large number of Indians - that is a number within the realm of actual [bestoveal] [?] possibility - might over a period of several centuries or possibly a thousand years, have

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� BOSTON UNIVERSITY

                                      COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
                                           688 BOYLSTON STREET
                                        BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
                                              December 27, 1943

Dear Mrs. Eckstorm : I have no good excuse for not having acknowledged before your fascinating speculations [?] regarding Pemaquid [?]. Reasons for my reglekt [?] are many, extreme busyness with the A [?] Training [?] Program, illness in my family, etc. But I do feel deeply apologetic for not having thanked you earlier for your generous sharing of a good deal of "food for thought." Have you seen C.K. Bolton : [?] Terra Nova : the northeast coast of America before 1602? I seem to have missed seeing it somehow but I remember hearing Mr. Bolton read a chapter from his manuscript back nearly ten years ago. It was a section called "The [fishenie of bacalaoo".] [?] Awfully dull to hear, too! But your mention of the close connection of the [Baoques and Portuguese] [?] with our coast in early times brought it back to by mind and I began to wonder whether this Bolton had made a real contribution to our early history. Your explanation of the [shell heaps] [?] interested me more than a little. I had never known before that the Indians dried the [oysters] [?] for [preservation] [?] for food. But isn't it possible that a large number of Indians - that is a number within the realm of actual [bestoveal] [?] possibility - might over a period of several centuries or possibly a thousand years, have