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Letter, I.S. [Isador] Trostler to Frank H. Shoemaker, 1905, July 7

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Handwritten letter, 7 pages, from I.S. [Isador] Trostler to Frank H. Shoemaker, "Yours of 24-38 red on 29th. Your cipher was easy (after I had the key). You look for something difficult in nine do you not?"
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Letter, I.S. [Isador] Trostler to Frank H. Shoemaker, 1905, July 7
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Handwritten letter, 7 pages, from I.S. [Isador] Trostler to Frank H. Shoemaker, "Yours of 24-38 red on 29th. Your cipher was easy (after I had the key). You look for something difficult in nine do you not?"
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[1905, July 7]

Sent you a box containing 8 cuttas
yesterday. I could have caught more, had
I had my net or the time to spare. I can
probably get more of them if you want them.
Talking about Cicindelidae - March 25ᵗʰ
last I saw the LeConte collection of C. at the
Agassiz museum of Comp. Zool. (Harvard Univ.-Cambridge, Mass.)
and while there had a chat chat with Prof Henshaw
who is chief mogul of the bug department. He
was very cordial soon as I mentioned the names
of Bruner & Wolcott. When I mentioned your
private C. celeripes forms he asked me if
it was not possible that we had C. cursitans
misidentified as celeripes.

There are several C. cursitans (in the
Museum coll.) from Neb and I think only one
or two C. celeripes in the collection and they
from the Atlantic coast I believe.

I thot of you and how you would have
enjoyed going thru that museum. It is
an immense affair, all carefully classified
and arranged in related groups and tho I
spent nearly a half day there I saw but a
minute fraction of the specimens. I spent a
date
7/7/1905
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Shoemaker, Frank H., 1875-1948
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Box 6
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RG 32-13-01
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Frank H. Shoemaker, Papers and Photographs
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Frank Shoemaker
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Frank Shoemaker Correspondence - RG32-13-01
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Letter, I.S. [Isador] Trostler to Frank H. Shoemaker, 1905, July 7
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Handwritten letter, 7 pages, from I.S. [Isador] Trostler to Frank H. Shoemaker, "Yours of 24-38 red on 29th. Your cipher was easy (after I had the key). You look for something difficult in nine do you not?"Letter, I.S. [Isador] Trostler to Frank H. Shoemaker, 1905, July 7