This letter dated August 3rd 1977 was Charles Hapgood's response to our enlarged version of A Paper for Charles Hapgood.
"I am astonished and delighted by your article which arrived here today. Believe it or not, it is the FIRST truly scientific exploration of my work that has ever been done. You have found evidence for crust displacement that I did not find.
However, it would seem that you are not aware of a book I published in 1966 entitled MAPS OF THE ANCIENT SEA KINGS. Since you are considering presenting your article to the Royal Geographical Society (of which I was a member until I stopped paying my dues), you should examine this book, and I am mailing a copy of it to you.
What I found, after long research, was that many maps considered of medieval or Renaissance origin are in fact copies of copies of maps drawn in very remote antiquity, and among them is one showing a DEGLACIAL ANTARCTICA. I was able to solve the projections of these maps with the help of a mathematician, and have them confirmed by the Cartographic staff of the Strategic Air Command at Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts. These maps also contain much evidence to support the Atlantis theory, though I avoided discussing that issue, but you could draw the conclusions.
It happens that a completely revised edition of the map book is being produced in England, by Turnstone Books, going to press in September. I have included about twenty additional maps in it, but meantime the original edition will be sufficient for your purposes. I am therefore mailing you a copy, and will appreciate your reactions to it.
It may be that after examining this book you may decide to reduce somewhat your emphasis on Atlantis, this on the myths, for the book contains enough hard evidence to stand by itself.
Let me congratulate you on the work you have done!
Sincerely,
Charles H. Hapgood
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