Great Nebraska

• Myron Swenk, Letter, 1904, May 3
• Lawrence Bruner, Letter, 1904, May 3
• J.B. Redfield, Letter, 1904, May 4
• J.B. Redfield, Letter, 1904, May 6

• C.W. Crum, Letter, 1904, May 9
• G.A. Young, Letter, 1904, May 12
• Lawrence Bruner, Letter, 1904, May 13

1904, May 3

Lincoln, Nebr., May 3, 1904.

My Dear Swenk:
Your letter of April 30th came duly to hand along with your time for April. I have taken the liberty to add fifty hours to the amount mentioned in your letter which I do not think you will object to very much. According to your observations you do not seem to be very much ahead in catching migrants except in a few cases. We have been doing but little field work, still have managed to secure quite a few of records in one way and another. In our Saturday Roca trip we obtained a list of 56 species. The weather was excellent and the crown hilarious, there being in the neighborhood of 60 who succeeded in catching the train and how many were left behind I cannot say. The party was made up of Ornithology, Geology, Geography, Botany and Entomology students, their being about 30 of Orn. The aver e a list obtained was 3 or 4. We went to Jamaca by the U. P., walked to Roca by the way of the hanging bridge (Uncle Lawrence got his picture snapped while crossing and returned on the B. & N. by freight.

I took the MSS for the Nebr. Bird List to the printer a week ago Monday. We have been promised the proofs at an early date, possibly this week and as the Co. who does the work used type casting machines, they said that they could readily keep the matter standing for several months so that additional prints could be made. I have not seen Skow concerning certain records but expect to go up to Florence tomorrow, since he has written me that he is at my disposal and is even willing to come to town to meet me.

Hope that you will be able to fill in a number of gaps in our collection and that you will also add some new forms to the state list. Of course we expect you to come up to attend the field meet at Omaha a week from Saturday. Better bring gun.
Yours very truly,

1904, May 3

Lincoln, Nebr., May, 3, 1904.

Mr. Lawrence Skow,
Florence, Nebr.

My Dear Sir;-
I am in receipt of your favor of April 28 for which I am much obliged. You may look for me almost any time this week, since I am quite anxious to have our revised list of Nebraska Birds as nearly perfect as possible. I will not bother you to meet me in Florence but will depend upon my legs to reach your place. I do not think the snake you mention in your letter is a poisonous one but it might be well to take some precaution in handling it.. We are quite busy now, nevertheless try to keep some track of migrant birds.
Yours very truly,

1904, May 4

A. T. Klopp, Pres.
J. B. Redfield, Secy

Klopp & Bartlett Co.
Printing, Lithographing
Designing, Engraving and
Blank-Book Making

Office Stationery
Bank Supplies Cor.

10th and Douglas Sts.
Telephone 364.

Omaha, Neb. May 4, 1904

Lawrence Bruner,
Lincoln, Nebr.

Dear Sir:
Enclosed herewith please find sample of type matter the way we intend running same. You will note that, for instance in No. 607, we have placed “Piranga ludoviciana” in black face type and “Wilson” in parenthesis, in caps and lower case and “Louisiana Tanager” in capital letters and small caps.

Our machines will not admit of using the italic with other faces and we would ask that if this is O.K., that you kindly approve and return to us immediately that we may go ahead with same.

In regard to the extra 500 copies you wished us to print and have the State pay for same, will say that they will not do this and it will be impossible to do this under our present contract, however the 500 copies that you wished a price on in cloth and the 500 copies in paper, we will be very pleased to give you our best price on these as soon as we get your report in type and see how much it will make.

We regret exceedingly that the State cannot see their way clear to furnish you the extra copies.

Kindly return this proof as soon as possible, and oblige,
Yours very truly,
Klopp & Bartlett Co.
J. B. Redfield

J. B. R.

1904, May 6

A. T. Klopp, Pres.
J. B. Redfield, Secy

Klopp & Bartlett Co.
Printing, Lithographing
Designing, Engraving and
Blank-Book Making

Office Stationery
Bank Supplies

Cor. 10th and Douglas Sts.
Telephone 364.

Omaha, Neb. May 6, 1904

Lawrence Bruner,
Lincoln, Nebr.

Dear Sir:
In reply to your inquiry for price on printing and binding your report after we have used same in the annual report of the State Board of Agriculture, we are pleased to quote you as follows:

1M books, printed on 25 x 38, 60 lb, S.& S.C., containing 100 pages, bound in paper cover, 20×25, 50 lb….$118.50

Should you wish to order 500 bound in cloth and 500 in paper, price would be $198.00

Trusting that this will meet with your approval and awaiting your reply, beg to remain,
Yours very truly,
KLOPP & BARTLETT CO.
J. B. Redfield

J. B. R.

1904, May 9

MAY 13 Ans’d

C. W. CRUM
County Superintendent
Madison, Nebraska

Madison, Nebr., May 9, 1904.

Lawrence Bruner,
Lincoln, Nebr.

My Dear Sir,
I have been trying to catch time for several months to write you and thank you for the few suggestions and pointers you and Dr. Wolcott gave me a year ago the first of last Jan. with respect to birds and insects.

Acting on your advice I commenced making notes Jan. 8th, ’03, and have kept it up pretty regularly since. I had herded for several years when a boy and thought my living with the birds had made me well acquainted with all we have in Northease Nebraska. I started by making a list of all the birds I could identify by common names and found I had 61, and besides these were about 20 that I recognized when I saw them but did not know their names. Secured Goss and other reference books and worked out the names of many of the twenty.

At the end of the year I found that I had positively identified thirteen different species that I never remembered having seen before. Thus far this year I have added four more to the list. My list of birds that I can positively identify now numbers ninety eight. Besides there are some twelve or more that I am not certain of.

This has been done without taking any time from my work whatever, and the observations I have made have largely been between my office and residence and when driving over the county.

Also at your suggestion I secured the Holland Butterfly Book, and commenced the study of those formes, chiefly for the benefit of my children. We made a glass case in which we developed caterpillars, and every Sunday took a walk and made collections. The children and my wife became most intensely interested in the study, My boy, not seven years old, would take the cyanide jar and net and bring in new species, get the book and have them identified when I returned.

1904, May 12

J. L. Greene, M. D., Superintendent
Albert D. Gilmore, Steward

J. T. Hay, M. D., First Ass’t Physician
Mabel Dunn, M. D., Second Ass’t Physician
G. A. Young, M. D., Pathologist

Nebraska Hospital for the Insane Asylum,

Nebr. 5 – 12 – 04

MAY 13 Ans’d

Professor Bruner
State University Lincoln

Dear Sir
Wishing to interest myself during the coming summer in a study of birds about this neighborhood, I am anxious to obtain some book or books which will be of assistance to me in this form of recreation, and hence am writing to you to ask for your advice and assistance. If you will help me in this matter, I shall consider it a real favor.
Yours very respectfully
G. A. Young

1904, May 13

Lincoln, Nebr., May 13, 1904.

G. A. Young,
Nebr. Hospital for Insane,
City.

My Dear Sir;-
Yours of yesterday at hand. I am very much pleased to learn that you are taking an interest in bird study and am sorry to say that just now we cannot direct you to a work that would help you to the fullest extent on Nebraska birds. However I enclose you herewith some literature concerning the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union which may be of interest to you. In the course of a month or so there will be available a synopsis and Preliminary Check List of our birds. This is now in the hands of the printers. In the meanwhile we would be pleased to have you meet occasionally with the local bird club here at the University. There will be such a meeting some time next week. If you will watch the papers you will find the date for the same.
Yours very truly,

1904, May 13

Lincoln, Nebr., May 13, 1904.

W. Crumb,
Co. Supt.
Madison, nebr.

My Dear Sir:-I am in receipt of your interesting letter of the 9th instant. Am glad that you have taken up bird study with so much enthusiasm since I am sure that you will push this line of nature work among your teachers. You undoubtedly now see why persons like Dr. Wolcott and myself are such enthusiastic cranks when it comes to the study of birds and insects. We simply cannot help ourselves after having spent a number of years in studying these creatures.

I do not know whether Dr. Wolcott is writing you today? At any rate he has wrapped up a package of leaflets on bird protection to be sent to you for distribution among your teachers. Please push the membership in the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union as we need a little more income in order to publish as fully as possible.
Yours very truly,

1904, May 14

MAY 24 Ans’d

Ogalalla neb May 14, 1904
Mr. Lawerance Brunner Lincoln Neb

Dear Sir
Your kind favour of 3rd inst was duly received thanks for your kindness. I note what you say reguarding the birds no one can apreciate them more than I. & no person has ever been permited to kill any birds on my Estate. I feed the quail and sparrows every winter keep nest boxes in orchard & now while I am writing this to you there quail in my front yard & garden Now my Dear Sir I have still another favour to ask of you. & that is how to make the arcinate of Lead I have the chemicals & did make it last season but have lost or misslaid the receipt or formulia I concluded your chemist or you would know if so please favour me with it & oblige
Resp Prof. D. Ducello

1904, May 24

A. T. Klopp, Pres.
J. B. Redfield, Secy

Klopp & Bartlett Co.
Printing, Lithographing
Designing, Engraving
and Blank-Book Making

Office Stationery
Bank Supplies

Cor. 10th and Douglas Sts.
Telephone 364.

Omaha, Neb. May 24, 1904

Lawrence Bruner,
Lincoln, Nebr.

Dear Sir:
We are forwarding you under separate cover a partial proof of your matter for the State Board of Agriculture book and we will push the rest of it forward immediately. We trust that we may have it in return promptly, and beg to remain,
Yours very truly
Klopp & Bartlett Co.
J. B. Redfield

J. B. R.

1904, May 27

A. T. Klopp, Pres.
J. B. Redfield, Secy

Klopp & Bartlett Co.
Printing, Lithographing
Designing, Engraving and
Blank-Book Making

Office Stationery
Bank Supplies

Cor. 10th and Douglas Sts.
Telephone 364.

Omaha, Neb. May 27, 1904

MAY 3 Ans’d

Lawrence Bruner,
Lincoln, Nebr.

Dear Sir:
We are in receipt of your corrected proof and are holding same until you return the copy as it will be impossible for us to make corrections without the copy.

Kindly return same as soon as convenient, and oblige,
Yours very truly,
Klopp & Bartlett Co.
J. B. Redfield

J. B. R.