The following family names appear in this letter: KING and REYNOLDS.  As before, the symbol "[?]" immediately following the last letter of a word indicates that we are uncertain about that word. The same symbol with a space on both sides of it indicates that an illegible word or phrase has been omitted.
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                                                                        28 Sewall Dr., Old Town, ME 0446
                                                                        Sunday, Sept. 17, 1995

Dear Bruce:

            I am being “familiar” only because we have corresponded and had forebears of the long ago back on the “North Shore” of Conception Bay in little-known Newfoundland. At the time I was doing what I could to discover my ancestry. It has taken me quite a while. I am now 92 and don’t have high hopes of reaching 93 in March. Meanwhile, I have done about all I could on the ancestor hunt and found much of it very interesting, including the origin of my given name Cecil. Officially, my name is Cecil John REYNOLDS and since I was one of the lucky recipients of the Rhodes Scholarships founded by Cecil John RHODES (died 1902) I have often been asked if I were named for him in 1903, not long after his passing was recorded in the media. Of course I wasn’t named for him but for the little sister Cecelia of my grandfather. She died in 1867 at 15 but he never forgot her. Nearly every generation of REYNOLDSes back to the 17th C. had begun with at least one girl (or[?] 5 or 7), so I was a real departure from the Girl First tradition. The John, of course, came from my father, but the Cecil is Cecelia with the feminine ending dropped.

            In April last I got together a Foreword, or short History of the REYNOLDS family & had several copies made. On p.9 I find this: Little James’ oldest sister Elizabeth (b 1812) married William KING (1807 – 91). Little James was the only son of James Jr, the oldest son of James Sr. who came over and [?] in 1769. I have no time to trace the descendants of James’ sister, but it is possible you may be descended from [?]. If you are interested, I would send you a copy of the Foreword.

                                                                        Sincerely, Cecil John REYNOLDS