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identifier/filename
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371-00122b
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title
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Letter, Myron Swenk to Lawrence Bruner, 1904, Apr. 30
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description
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Handwritten letter, 2 pages, from Myron Swenk to Lawrence Bruner, "Well, it is about time I am letting you…"
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Transcription
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Collect Giant water-bugs. Heteroptera Untl I can get to the deep woods I will occupy myself with getting the commoner birds which the University does not have, and try to fill up many of the gaps in the series. As this is the last of the month I enclose my bill for April. The $6.00 is work I did at Lincoln before I left (up to Apr. 6) and the $5.20 the time I have put in here along with $1.20 expended for bobinette, primers, cotton, arsenic and thread, making in all $11.20. Of course I am but started, and next month will put in a great many more hours, so if you deem it desirable to "even up" by adding some hours to this month's bill, say 50 hrs., why it might be well to do so. I got a Yellow-throated Vireo Thursday at fully 40 yards with 1 shot. How is the "Manual" progressing? Give Wolcott my best regards and tell him if it is not too much trouble to drop me a card and let me know what the eastern authorities did with our determinations, as I am very curious about it. No doubt they squelched our Mosker and Sparrow hawk! I am paying particular care to find out as many of these subspecies problems as possible. Our House Wrens are all western, one yellowthroats brachidactyla and all the White-crowns I have yet seen are true leucophrys. The Field Sparrow is common but I have not yet been able to shoot a specimen. One that I saw in town seemed quite [illegible], but the song is not different from that of arenacia. Say "Hello" to the girls for me and tell Ruth that if she should have occasion to print my lables to stick in a "Richardson County" and "Falls City." I don't remember whether we have "Rulo" or not. Well so long for this time, hope everything is going all O. K.
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date
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4/30/1904
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source/RG#/MS#
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MS 0371
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isPartOf/Collection
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Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
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rights
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For copyright information, please contact the repository.
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publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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language
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English
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