Name/Title
LetterEntry/Object ID
JJA.1938.456Description
This is a handwritten letter to Delie Tyler from J.B. [?]. Transcription reads as follows: "Cambridge Nov. 16, 1901 Dear Mrs. Tyler, Fischer Ames sends me another copy of his 'Bif of Ames Geneolgy' for Mrs. Tyler. It has some things added which I want to copy into mine! So I will hold on to it while mine comes back then send it. There is not haste about it whatever. Dean Ames says he knows of nothing except some samples of genealogical tables in the 'History of ____________ and Perrerell' (Maps). I looked at these & ________ the names in ________ of John Ames _____ dying in 1724; Stephen, who married June Rubbine in 1731. Jacob, Alex & Ruth Shattuck in 1727; Amos, & Abigail Burkeley in 1751; and Robert and Sarah ________. In Peggerell Jacob & Sarah', Elizab. & Prudence', was mentioned in just that form. The book is by Butler & printed in Boston, 1848, ___________ of T. R. Marrin. I have obtained also from Fischer Ames the address of Dr. Azel Ames, who has for years been exploring the Ames geneology. I doubt not he could give Mrs. Tyler what she wants of just had ________ think of it. He lives at Wakefield, Mass. Unluckily it is said, he now has some employment at Porto Rico & may not be at home. I should address it W. with and outside request to "please forward". And finally the Dean tells me that Ellis Ames was dead, a well-known ____________ & antiquarian, of the town of Canton, he prepared some family tables or charts which could probably be found at the rooms of the Historic /Genealogical Soc. in Boston. Please tell Mrs. Tyler, with my compliments, that I shall always be glad to be of any further ________ in _____________ these matters ___________ , & she is ____ truly at liberty to use my name in writing to any of these people. Truly Yours, J. B. __________ I count on that __ ______ when it is ready."Collection
L. S. Tyler CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1901 - 1901Notes
Date: November 16, 1901Lexicon
Search Terms
* Communication Artifacts, Correspondence, Letters, Cambridge (Mass.), MassachusettsDimensions
Height
7-5/8 inWidth
6-1/16 in