title: Gravestone Chronicles II: More Eighteenth-Century New England Carvers and an Exploration of Gravestone Heraldica
author: Theodore Chase
description: Theodore Chase is past president of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, longtime keeper of the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical Society, former president of the Association for Gravestone Studies, and past editor of its journal Markers. Laurel K. Gabel is a trustee of the Association for Gravestone Studies, head of its research department, and a frequent national speaker on gravestone research.
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  Copyright © 1979 by John Barth  
  
  
  All rights reserved  
  
  
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  Barth, John.  
  
  
  Letters.
  
  
  
  
  
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  79-13503
  
  
  
  
  
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  [**A: _Lady Amherst to the Author._** _Inviting him to accept an honorary
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