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�447 Marlborough St. May 6/34

Dear Mrs. Eckstorm, It is some your fault if I start up instantly after your letter. Anyway, I am sure you are used to it. That Negwasukeag is [word is underscored] queer. but I know no footing up there, down here I cut-a-cut myself sometimes, often to [?] [?]. He is lucky our forbears did not perpetuate many but the plain names, certainly in the North, Labrador, I was helpless where a touch of imagination or whimsy came in: rather often in Indian would say "Not my country", & not try. Though the location might not be far. My trips up on Nejwankeag is present Chauncy Pond near here, a fine round affair. His name was Lan as Naggawoomcom. No fast water about & the mound idea fits well. Could a mounding up of the water at the [?] stage for the motion, it can be very striking in such ruins, & disconcerting. [?] not too plain there was a small [?] north with a name looking as if something had happened to some cloth! All I could think of was [?] canvas, but the name was not [?] & canvas [?] were. He came out this way where the [?] path cames to a