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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_013
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1
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Date
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1899
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Description
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Elizabeth Van Sant transcribed letters
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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12 Finding no place where I could get anything to eat, about one o'clock I took a car for the city, and did not return to the woods as I should have done if the sun had come out brightly. Sterling, Kansas May 6 Upon my arrival, stopping at Mrs. Kimball's for dinner and prowling about the hedgerows I ran upon a mockingbird. I had hoped to see him while in Kansas, but had no idea he would be my first Kansas bird. He was not singing, and my look at him was brief. I am told that the species is abundant here, so I shall have ample time to get acquainted with them. The farm, Rice Co., Kansas May 7 The country in which my brother's farm is situated is level, and was originally unwooded. Groves and orchards have been planted here and there, which have grown to a considerable extent, and hedgerows are common instead of fences. The roads divide the country into squares of one mile each. There are no streams within walking distance. It is hardly possible that this will furnish as great a number of birds as a more diversified country, but I am already conviced there will be some new ones. Heard the brown thrasher singing on the sing. May 8 Found a mourning dove's nest with two eggs in a plum tree, five feet from the ground. There is a sparrow in the plum grove that at first I thought was new, but
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