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R. S. HUNTINGTON
PRESIDENT

DuPONT GUERRY, JR.
VICE-PRES. & TREAS.

J. H. HOWARD
SECRETARY

[COMPANY LOGO TEXT]
HUNTINGTON & GUERRY
TROUBLE PROOF
ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS

HUNTINGTON & GUERRY
INCORPORATED
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CONTRACTING
INDUSTRIAL POWER AND LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS
COMMERCIAL WIRING
CORNER RIVER & HAMMOND STREETS
GREENVILLE, S. C.

Sept. 2, 1930

Mr. John M. Holmes,

Greenville, S.C.

Dear John:-

While Jane and I were away we visited South Harpwell, Maine, which is a peninsula in Casco Bay. We did not see among your collection of rocks any covered with barnacles so we picked this one up and brought it back thinking you might like to use it in the building. It should be of interest to boys as many sea stories refer to the barnacles accumulating on ships and having to be scraped off periodically etc. Of further interest is the location where this was gotten. It is across from Orr's Island, Maine where Hariett Beacher Stowe made her summer home and wrote several books among them the Pearl of Orr's Island. Casco Bay is said, in legend, to have 365 Islands. One of these islands, visible from the spot on which this stone was picked up, is owned by the Peary family and was the regular summer home of Commodore Peary, the first explorer to visit the North Pole.

Longfellow, in his poems, has several references to Casco Bay and I am under the impression that his poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus" occurred in this immediate vicinity. With best wishes,

Very truly yours,
Roger

RSH-RH

[Handwritten note]
Longfellow was born in Portland Maine, which is virtually on the shore of Casco Bay. His birthplace is down near the water front.

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