Letter from G. E. Valley Jr. to Marian Steuart thanking her for a map of Kent Island and sending a copy of his report on the Ringgold family, with pages from the John H. Cummins-Rebecca (Ringgold) Cummins Bible; he plans a report on John and Rebecca Cummins next, then his other three grandparents.

[Notebook p. 79. Copy of GEV's typed letter to Marian Steuart, pasted in.] GEORGE E. VALLEY, JR. 607 MAIN STREET, CONCORD, MA 01742 617 369 5692

September 12, 1986.

Mrs. Lloyd L. Steuart Rt.3, Box 67 Stevensville Md. 21666

Dear Mrs. Steuart:

Thank you for the excellent map of Kent Island, which came just in time to be included in my report about the Ringgold family.

Here is a copy, minus the hundred pages of citations, all of which are otherwise available. I have included several pages from the John H. Cummins-Rebecca (Ringgold) Cummins bible, to add to your collection.

In the material mailed to my children and my brother's family, I included several pages of biography taken from A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, published by Johns Hopkins. I discovered this book too late to include references to it in the main body of my report.

I am now about to do a report about the family of John H. Cummins and Rebecca (Ringgold) Cummins, and some of their relatives of the Civil War era. That will get my maternal grandfather established, and I shall then go on to my other three grandparents, and how they came to be.

I hope this finds you well. Today we are having summer weather for the first time in weeks.

Sincerely yours, [signed] George Valley George E. Valley, Jr. [handwritten:] VLCMF4 P.S. how to glue the pp together to use the wide margins in loose-leaf book did not include Fig 5 nor 8 x 9 which I don't have