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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_031
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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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30 A nest of the catbird, along the roadside near where the two nests had been destroyed. This has three eggs; we hope we may get a photograph of young birds. Took a photograph of a nest of the red-eyed towhee. Our Poor Farm "property" is giving us more nests than more distant fields. June 26 The little English sparrow has learned to feed himself. He is very tame, and allows us to walk up to him and take him in our hands anywhere. Poor Weary Watkings, the cat, is distracted; he tries to get through the window screen, and seems not to learn that there is an obstruction. June 27 The sparrow shows his first tendency to wild ness after being left alone all day while we are at our work down town. He does not make any effort to get through the windows, and has no fear of us after once we get him in our hands; however, he seems to take delight in eluding us when we attempt to catch him. He spends a good deal of time on the floor when out of his cage; today he insultingly went through the motions of taking a dust-bath on my quite decently kept carpet. June 29 The new spider - named Two-Humps, of course - made a cocoon fastened to the woodwork at the top of its cage. It is light cream color with a darker cap. She is much changed in appearance. She has built no regular web, and makes no effort to catch a fly when it is turned loose in the cage;
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Rights
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