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Robert G Torrence
Hell's Peak Road
Londonderry
Vermont 05148

July 27 1978

Dear Bob

I appear to be about a month behind in acknowledging
your last letter. Thank you for the biographical material. It
is a pleasure to have so distinguished a "cousin". I am taking the
liberty of enclosing something which will, tell you a little
about me in more prosperous days.

It certainly would be a clear "break through" if
the connection between the Torrences of Scotland and those
of Northern Ireland could be satisfactorily established. The
circumstantial evidence of identical names, especially that
unique one of Mungo Torrence is very strong. I was
interested to see the Torrence triangle depicted on a modern
map. I have no idea where my father located his information
however. The pity of it is that from my departure to boarding
school at age 14, through the war and my marriage and
professional travels which were exhaustive, I spent little
time in Baltimore and was not at all close to his work.

As I believe I hove written you my efforts to
locate anything like an historical society in Torrance Co.
California have proved futile and I have no idea where
to turn in hopes of developing information bout Mrs Henderson.
I suspect that once I can get access to my father's files
in storage her former address may turn up somewhere
among the correspondence.But that will simply have to
wait until I, hopefully, feel up to the task of going
to New Haven and sort through some seventy cartons.
I was hospitalised when my belongings were moved
from mt former residence and my former wife did
not bother to inventory carton contents, the only identifiable
difference being those containing plates and glassware and
books and papers.It is interesting genealogically to note
that she and I shared a common Irish ancestor on our
maternal side, Sir Robert Shirley, Earl of Ferrars.

Please tell me more about the concept of a One
Name Society. I am not quite sure I understand what
it connotes.

You ask how I spend my time. Indeed that
presents a problem, between the restriction on my driving and
stiffness of neck which makes reading for any particular period
uncomfortable. I have also had to give up stream fishing
which was one of my favorite pastimes. At the present I
am compiling from my business records a handbook for
fund raisers dealing with methods of conducting development
studies for college and universities, among which I have
worked directly with Yale, Stanford, Michigan State, University
of Connecticut, College of William and Mary in the years just
prior to retirement.

I hope this letter finds you in good health
apologising again for not being a better source of information
and look forward to hearing further from you at your
convenience. With my best wishes,

Sincerely

Bob

P.S. I am returning your clipping from the Evening Echo
having made a machine copy for my file.

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