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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_011
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2
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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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41 Today I gave him a bath and put him in a box on the back porch where the sun would shine on him all morning. He grew lively and wide awake, and remained so the rest of the day. In the afternoon we went to the Poor Farm woods and took a picture of the young doves, perching them on a limb for the purpose and then returning them to the nest. The wood pewee has two eggs. Aug. 2 Mica shed her skin for the eighth time. She shows no tendency to spin a cocoon this summer. Aug. 7 The bath and sunshine a week ago Sunday had a beneficial effect on the box tortoise; he has crawled freely about the rooms instead of spending his time asleep under the book-case. He eats better, and almost always accepts water when it is offered to him. About the middle of June he weighed 1.3 once, and has probably gained slightly. The Birds. Our family of five birds is progressing in every way. They have grown to almost mature size. The orioles have a remarkably smooth plumage; one of them, Olus, is brightening quite a little, and Is undoubtedly a male. The grosbeaks are much less mature in plumage. Their feathers are uneven and very brittle, the tails of both being more or less broken
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Rights
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