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Correspondence from Robert E. Moody to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1943
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| − | �piled up the shells in the [mannes] [?] you describe without having dealt in dried [oysters] [?] with the wluto man [of] [?] all? I can [cov] [?] of Novembega as an Indian center of some importance at Pemaquid but I am [skeptical] [?] of a Portuguese, [Spa] [?] or [Barque] [?] town there which could possibly have [excaped] [?] being in some written record no matter how secret. The [pavements are puzzling] [?] of course but how could [Dunbou] [?] in all of his [voluminous] [?] letters have failed to mention them - unless indeed they were even then [buried.] [?] But they seem to me to follow in design remarkably the cellars and streets which his Irishmen buitl, if Thomas Wells' detailed [map] [?] of which I have a [phostal] [?] from the Public Record office, is to be trusted. And is the designs of the [fort] too far from that of some of the Irish [Towers] [?] still in existence in Ireland? | + | �piled up the [shells] [?] in the [mannes] [?] you describe without having dealt in dried [oysters] [?] with the wluto man [of] [?] all? I can [cov] [?] of Novembega as an Indian center of some importance at Pemaquid but I am [skeptical] [?] of a Portuguese, [Spa] [?] or [Barque] [?] town there which could possibly have [excaped] [?] being in some written record no matter how secret. The [pavements are puzzling] [?] of course but how could [Dunbou] [?] in all of his [voluminous] [?] letters have failed to mention them - unless indeed they were even then [buried.] [?] But they seem to me to follow in design remarkably the cellars and streets which his Irishmen buitl, if Thomas Wells' detailed [map] [?] of which I have a [phostal] [?] from the Public Record office, is to be trusted. And is the designs of the [fort] too far from that of some of the Irish [Towers] [?] still in existence in Ireland? |
Your [spring thesis] [?] seems to me to be a [mighty] [?] been guess. I would never have thought of it but I'd gamble that your [hunch] [?] is correct. | Your [spring thesis] [?] seems to me to be a [mighty] [?] been guess. I would never have thought of it but I'd gamble that your [hunch] [?] is correct. | ||
One thing I am sure of : that the coast of Maine was the scene from the earliest times of some most exciting history. Your idea is a most challenging one with a remarkable array of widely scattered facts pointing to a single probability. Stranger things have been proven true. For the privilege of sharing your knowledge and [speculations] [?]. I am grateful. | One thing I am sure of : that the coast of Maine was the scene from the earliest times of some most exciting history. Your idea is a most challenging one with a remarkable array of widely scattered facts pointing to a single probability. Stranger things have been proven true. For the privilege of sharing your knowledge and [speculations] [?]. I am grateful. | ||
Yours most sincerely, | Yours most sincerely, | ||
Robert E. Moody | Robert E. Moody | ||
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�piled up the [shells] [?] in the [mannes] [?] you describe without having dealt in dried [oysters] [?] with the wluto man [of] [?] all? I can [cov] [?] of Novembega as an Indian center of some importance at Pemaquid but I am [skeptical] [?] of a Portuguese, [Spa] [?] or [Barque] [?] town there which could possibly have [excaped] [?] being in some written record no matter how secret. The [pavements are puzzling] [?] of course but how could [Dunbou] [?] in all of his [voluminous] [?] letters have failed to mention them - unless indeed they were even then [buried.] [?] But they seem to me to follow in design remarkably the cellars and streets which his Irishmen buitl, if Thomas Wells' detailed [map] [?] of which I have a [phostal] [?] from the Public Record office, is to be trusted. And is the designs of the [fort] too far from that of some of the Irish [Towers] [?] still in existence in Ireland?
Your [spring thesis] [?] seems to me to be a [mighty] [?] been guess. I would never have thought of it but I'd gamble that your [hunch] [?] is correct.
One thing I am sure of : that the coast of Maine was the scene from the earliest times of some most exciting history. Your idea is a most challenging one with a remarkable array of widely scattered facts pointing to a single probability. Stranger things have been proven true. For the privilege of sharing your knowledge and [speculations] [?]. I am grateful.
Yours most sincerely,
Robert E. Moody