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March 22,1909. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



145 Brattle Street, 



C ambr i dg e , K as s : 



My dear Sir: 



For many years I have greatly admired the his- 

 torical work of your father, the late Dr. Charles Deane. He 

 was so careful and exact a scholar that I am always willing 

 to accept hit? conclusions on historical matters without quest- 

 ion. 



I make this statement to justify the request I am about 

 to make. It would give me great pleasiire to insert in my 

 copy of Bradford's History of Plymouth, Plantation, which Dr. 

 Deane edited for the Massachusetts Historical Society, a 

 scrap of your father' s handwriting. If you have a letter or 

 hit of his MS. that you feel you can 3pare, will you he so 

 indulgent as to comply with my request? 



In any event, I hope that you will not consider my re- 

 quest an impertinence. 



Thanking you in anticipation of a reply, I am, 



/ ^ ' . Yours faithfully,, 



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