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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_028
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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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27 floor. We are afraid she will injure herself, so we do not let her fly from any considerable height. She would not eat anything tonight. June 12 The bat made a good supper of milk, the pulp of fresh beef, and a June bug. Her powers of flight have not improved, but her spirits are good. She uses her mouth to aid her in climbing, and occasionally gives us a bite which we remember for a time. We give her plenty of exercise, climbing about over the couch and fluttering along the floor. June 17 Our little bat has outgrown all her wildness and tendency to bite. Today I had her in the sunshine for a while, and could plainly see the little ones moving within her. She is different in some respects from all our other bats. Every morning I find her in the bottom of the basket. She does not go back to her blankets, or to suspend herself from the side of the basket, as the others always did. We have kept her on an insect diet, and have given her plenty of exercise. She eats about three June bugs and two or three sizable moths every evening. She seems very drowsy; but this is perhaps natural. June 18 At 11:45 Frank and I started for Albright. We took a new route, which carried us through some very pretty woods. Our chat's nest, which we had hoped to photograph with the young, had been destroyed by the storm. We found nothing for our camera. We brought home a large and peculiar spider. It is a weaver of some sort,
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Rights
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