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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I think this requires our collective=20
expertise.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>David</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----=20
<DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbennett@b... href=3D"mailto:bennett@b...">Julia=
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Bennett</A> </DIV>
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href=3D"mailto:david@b...">david@b...</A> </D=
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:16 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Christopher Hodson</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Dear Mr Bryant,<BR><BR>About a year ago you were kind enough=
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help me with information<BR>regarding the Hodson bellfounding family, as in=
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1977, I had excavated a<BR>bellfoundry of Christopher Hodson's at Durham=20
Cathedral dating to<BR>1683-1684. I am now in the process (finally!) of app=
lying=20
for funding to<BR>complete my research and publish this site, but before=20
submitting my<BR>application, Chris Pickford suggested that you might be ab=
le to=20
help me<BR>on certain specific matters. (1) Am I correct in believing that=
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my<BR>Durham bellfoundry is the only excavated example of its date? (2) Am=
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I<BR>correct in believing that this is the only EXCAVATED bellfoundry=20
that<BR>can be specifically associated with Christopher Hodson? (3) Finally=
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am<BR>I also right in believing that this is the only excavated=20
bellfoundry<BR>for which there are contemporary contracts and other records=
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the<BR>materials involved in its construction and operation?<BR><BR>With ma=
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thanks, in anticipation, for your comments, which will be most<BR>very=20
gratefully received.<BR><BR>Yours,<BR><BR>Julian Bennett<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR=
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