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identifier/filename
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371-00127a
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title
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Letter, Robert Wolcott to Lawrence Bruner, 1904, June 10
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description
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Handwritten letter, 2 pages, from Robert Wolcott to Lawrence Bruner, "Proof received promptly and forwarded to Klopp…"
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Transcription
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University of Missouri Zoological Laboratory George Lefevre Winterton C. Curtis Columbia, Missouri, June 10, 1904. My dear Bruner Proof received promptly and forwarded to Klopp-Bartlett Co. Most of changes I had to make need no discussion; but am glad to have had the proof. For speckled as it was when I got it, I found a lot of errors you had overlooked - so many I counted them, and found11 misspellings, 48 errors in punctuation, 10 in capitalization, 9 in style of type, and 2 in arramgement of matter. Of all these there could be no question, and some were very apparent, as Illinos, Machrochires, Pahsianidae (instead of Pha), &c., which simply shows how easy it is to overlook such things and how desirable for more than one to read proof. As to other changes, there may be some question. You cut out the hyphens in "wing-coverts" and "tail-coverts," and in breast-band" and "crown-line" in some places and not in others. I looked up carefully in both the Century and Standard Dictionaries and it seemed clearly to be in accord with both to retain the hyphen, though I believe to omit it would also be correct. Since it made less proof-changes I fixed up the proof to leave it in.
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date
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1904, June 10
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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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