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identifier/filename
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371-00124b
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title
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Letter, C.W. Crum to Lawrence Bruner, 1904, May 9
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description
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Typewritten letter, 2 pages, from C.W. Crum to Lawrence Bruner, "I have been trying to catch time…"
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Transcription
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office. We made quite a collection, but were not prepared to it in safe and proper form. This year we are gong to do better. ve the Holland Moth Book, and already we have a start in a new moth butterfly collection. I am sure you would be surprised to hear my boy handle those jaw-breaking scientific names. I am constantly surprised at the amount of real pleasure we have had in this work, or rather play. It has been a continuous eye-opener to me and I have seen my children developing the power of observation such as I never dreamed possible. And I feel disgusted with myself whenever I think of the vast field of beauty and interest lying open before my eyes that I never saw through all the years, and the pleasures lost from the lack of training in observation and a leader to point a path. I am beginning to think that I could easily become an enthusiast in your line of study and work, and have ceased to wonder that a live man can give his whole life to the insignificent study of bugs, and worms, and birds, and sich. I beg to remain, Yours very truly, C. W. Crum Have just sent in dues to the N. O. U. I wish you would post me on any work of special importance in these lines that comes to your notice.
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date
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5/9/1904
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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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