June 18, 1911.

Rev. A.F. Newell,

Franklin, Nebr.,

My Dear Sir:-

I have yours of the 30th of May and had supposed that it was answered before this time but it seems to have been lost in the shuffle on my desk. I shall take pleasure in looking up these boys who are interested in birds and bugs because I wish to have additional students from time to time and I am intending to write a letter to Mr. Charles M. Chalfon today in which I shall ask him to tell me what he has in the way of books and other helps.

Yours very truly,

1911, May 30

Franklin, Neb. June 20, 1911.

Prof. Bruner.

Lincoln, Neb. 

Dear Sir: - 

I recieved your kind letter yesterday. I have always liked birds,  but have been trying for two and a half years to find out names of the bird. When we found a bird with a broken wing, we thought it was a Forester Tern, we left it in a screened porch. It would eat from our hands. 

One day I counted what it ate. It ate worms, 9 angle worms, 5 grasshoppers, and the others (ininteligible) enough (ininteligible) to make a 120  and it caight some flys itself. 

When its wing got well it flew away. I have Bird Life, by Frank Chapman. Birds of the west; by Charles E. Holmes and Birds of Nebraska. Ane can get Bird Neighbors and Bird that hunt and are hunted.  by Nelty Blondcham from a friend..

I think I know 83 birds, but there is a great many here that  do not know.

[1911, June 20]

There is a large bird here it is color of a Pwryle Grackle. But much longer. I have not been very close to them but I have been told. They are not common, and slow in flight. There leg stick straight behind them. It is called the skypoke. I cannot find in it the books. The game warden found a nest, it was in a pile of sand with a hole in one side another there was four eggs covered with feathers. 

There is a little bird that acts like a wren. I know the long bill marsh and western house wrens, but this has a yellow in (ininteligible) color. It is very quick so quick that I can not see it good. It sing (ininteligible) and scolds like a wren. It build a nest of grass weavings a hang nest seldom over three feet above the ground. It has four  pure white eggs the size of a house wren but longer. 

When and where does the Golden Plower pass over the state?

We want to know what months and (ininteligible) are harmless and do harm.   There is a big flock (ininteligible) we wish we knew more about him he eats moths. 

[1911, June 20]

There is a little animal the size of a nut. It has not been here long they are coming fast. It has a long tail woth a bunch of the hair on the end. It hops on it's hind legs like a hangsr. It is called the kangaroo rat. It's front legs are not as half as long as its hind legs. It has pockets in it's cheeks. It's head is like a gophers. The old ones are gray and yellow.

Our Rat is its real name?

Yours Truly

Charles M. Chalfron

Proffesor Bruner

Dear Sir. - 

Both Mr. Chalfron and myself  are very grateful for your offer to direct  Charlie's studies. He will be thirteen in Sept. and is in 7th grade at school.

His ambition for the last year has been to "some day" be a memeber of The State Bird Society." 

Very truly, Mrs. C.E. Chalfron