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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_022
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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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21 We went quite a distance into the woods across the railroad, intending to get a picture of a cardinal grosbeak's nest which Frank had discovered a week ago. It then had one egg. It was only three feet from the ground and was particularly well situated for a photograph; but we found it empty. May 29 flicker nighthawk rose-breasted grosbeak kingbird robin crested flycatcher wood thrush dickcissel catbird wn. meadowlark bluejay bobwhite yellow warbler lark sparrow chickadee mourning dove scarlet tanager Baltimore oriole red-headed woodpecker yellow-billed cuckoo purple martin warbling vireo chimney swift grasshopper sparrow At 5 o'clock Father, Frank and I went out beyond the park to look for spiders. We found one tunnel but no spiders. A dickcissel, perched atop a weed, assured us long and insistently, that she had a nest; so we looked for it. The nest was in an Indian currant bush, only 18 inches from the ground. - The grasshopper sparrows were numerous, and from their actions were evidently nesting, but we could not find any. June 1 Going down on the elevator at the New York Life building, Father and I met a young lady with a yellow-billed cuckoo in her hands. She said he had flown against the window on the ninth floor and stunned himself. She was afraid to turn it loose down town for fear it might not be able to fly. We gladly offered to take it home and liberate it in the woods. Father made a cage of the waste-basket for it, and in the evening we took it home. He seems un-
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