Ans July 11 - 97.
Lincoln, Nebr.
June 6, 1896.
Dear Papa,
I thought I would write you a letter and tell you all about the folks I am going to West Point Friday 11, I wrote in a hurry and my writing is not very good. Mamma and all the folks are well Baby walks any place alone now Last night before last she walked form [sic] one end of the walk to the other. Tiger and Tiger's kittens play now I gave the yellow one a mouse this morning and he growled over it and slaped [sic] the other kittens There has been a mad dog around and he bite [sic] a lot of dogs. Helen wants you to bring her a doll and I want you to send me the dress they wore Please write to me as soon as you get

the letter.
Good bye form [sic] all and love and kissess [sic] form [sic] me. Your loving daughter P 
Psyche Bruner

P.S. I passed into the B a a higher classes and got 100 in spelling. The lowest I got was 80 and the rest were in the 90 & then 100. 
P.B.

Ans July 11 - 97.
Lincoln. June 9- '97.
Dear Lawrence,
Well, it has been two weeks since I wrote. I did not have a chance last Sunday as I went to Valperaiso and stayed over Sunday and was so busy all week. I did not think it would make any difference to you anyway as I do not suppose you get your mail every week.

Well Wednesday evening June 5 we recieved [sic] your cable gram and was glad to get it too. The chancellor sent it right out here. He said he had been anxious a while past for you and I had not expected it yet. I was waiting

until the six weeks were up, so you see I was surprised. I am so anxious to get a letter from you and to know how you stood the journey, and all about it. You are settled by this time and have of course planned your course of action. How did the people you are to work for recieve [sic] you and what do they think about it?

We are all well, have not seen doctor Righter since you left. This week is commencement week wish you were here to go to some of the things.

I have not sent the $10, to Doane College or to the Children's Home yet. Have paid the $52 to the Insurance Co. Mr. Mockelt gave me a reciept [sic] also paid Nannie Frankish her interest and have about $50 in the bank

but I do not want to draw on that yet for these other things until I am sure of hearing from you. I want to keep that on hand. Mrs Gehrung, Nellie, Mrs Moore and her sister Mrs Ereheart all took supper here last night. Mrs S. has had several chances to sell her place. I think she will soon dispose of it. 
Psyche goes to W.P. this week with Amy, and I will go in the course of two more weeks. I am beginning to get rested some, it seems so nice to be quiet. Eliza was so noisy I did not realize what a relief it would be not to have her noise. Helen has just been singing "My Country" at the top of her voice which nearly distracted me. I go to Dr. Ward twice a week and am ever so much better. She said that she can just

begin to handle the uterus and see what is the matter. For one thing she pronounces that bunch or growth on it in the nature of a [?]. Says it can be removed easily. I want to see Dr. Finney before long to see what he has to say. I think if I can be cured up while you are away without it costing too much I ought to do it. What do you think.

A mad dog ran down Locust street one day last week and bit ever so many dogs. The girls have hardly dared to skip since, think I will have Fido disposed of when Psyche is gone. Helen will not care.

Baby says — "Ma-ma take baby up," and several such sentences.

She is crying for me now so I will close, with much love.
Marcia Bruner

Ans Aug 6 / 97

Lincoln. Nebr.
June 13 1897
Dear Lawrence,
I have an awful headache today and do not know as I can write anything intelligably [sic]. It has turned off real hot at last and the heat affects me so.

Fred Taylor was here calling he has a positive on the trans Missippi​ [sic] exposition this summer. His children are in and Alice has gone to take care of her mother who has a cancer of the breast and can not live long.

Alice was elected as one of the teachers. Seba will probably be elected as principal of some

school before the schools open in the fall.

Psyche went with Henry &Lillie she had a valise full of clothes and seemed very happy.

Helen has lost three of her front under teeth now and looks of . She is very proud of it. Today was children's day in church. I took baby and she behaved beautifully, was interested in everything and let several people take her. Mr. Doane baptised [sic] four babies. He asked me yesterday if I had any thought of having Alice baptised [sic] but I told him I would not think of it without you here. They have a little over $600 to raise now and have not made an especial effort.

I am getting so tired of ans

wering questions about you, as all I can answer is that you are there. I did think I would have a letter before this. It will seem too good to be true when your letters become regular.

Mrs Tremain said her daughter wrote that she was going to give you a good big hug when you got there and I told her to send word to her to give you one for me. Seba and Grace will stay here while I am in West Point. I will go sometimes next week if I hear from you.

We are so anxious to know how you stood the trip.

I will send you clippings of the commencement week exercises of the Uni. They were kind enough to give you a degree after you had reached a place when you do not need it. I had left before it was done and did not

know a thing of it until I heard it by chance. They say the Chancellor was very complimentary about you.

E. E. Hale is a grand old man. I went to a party yesterday afternoon and am invited to two more this week. The hot weather does not seem to interfere.

I can not think of more to write today my head aches so. You can read the papers and make out the rest of what I ought to write.

Yours with love.

Marcia Bruner
2314 S. 17th St. 
Lincoln Nebr.

Ans Aug 6 / 97

West Point, Nebr.
June 20 1897
Dear Lawrence,
Well you see I have arrived here. Psyche wrote that if I did not come now Phoneta and the boys would not get to see Helen and baby so I came yesterday. It was hot in Lincoln last week people could hardly endure it. Seems cooler here.

They are getting ready to go by wagon to the Claims tomorrow. They will take 70 cows and calves altogether. Rancher Paul Sims and a Briggs boy are going along to help drive. It seems like a big under

taking. They will have to build a new cabin or else live in the tent all the time. The procession will start about noon. I did look and long so all last week for a letter from you. It seems strange you had no chance to post one on your way down there.

The papers all over the country are still writing you up. Baby seems to feel at home here. She fell down last night and made her nose bleed besides cutting a gash in her lip and fell out of bed. Then this morning scratched her because she was pounding him with a piece of iron.

Mr. Lipe's father died and he is in the east. Gussie Lipe got a position in Omaha so he is here no longer.

Psyche is taking music lessons of Lillie Monroe now.

Helen is growing so fast this summer she is real thin. You would see a big a change in her now if you came back. Hattie was real sick last week she had twin baby's​, both dead. She was so sick all the time, did not get any farther along than 6 mo.​ or more. All glad she had them now as it did not seem possible for her to go longer.

There is so much going on today here I can not write anymore. Amy said she wrote a 20 page letter to you so I am in hopes it will make up for the shortness of mine.

It seems lonesome here without you along.

Lovingly your wife, Marcia B