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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Psyche Bruner, 1897, July 5
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, July 5
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 2 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Psyche, "As this is your birthday I will write to you..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-013a
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Transcription
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July 5th 1897
My Dear Psyche:–
As this is your birthday I will write to you instead of to mamma. I just returned from way up north of here where I was all last week looking up the grasshoppers so as to know something about how they pass the winters. I found lots of them in the woods about 200 miles from here and heard of many more within 50 to 75 miles of where I saw them.
You might not think that there is a winter in this country but there is, and very cold too. Not such freezing cold as we have in Nebraska, but damp and chilly and nearly cold enough to freeze ice. Then there are no fires anywhere in the cars, hotels, houses or huts. The children all run barefooted and with but little clothing on them and when the sun shines they all stand on the sunny side of the house. When it is cloudy they huddle together like chickens to keep one another warm, or stand crouched down with their backs to the wind like cattle.
A great many of the houses are made by standing up four posts then putting on a roof to keep the rain out. Some richer ones put sticks and brush to keep out the wind on one, two or even three sides. None of the houses are as good as our old chicken coop. This is out in the country. In town the houses are a little better. Some have moveable sides as to change them around when the wind changes. A few of the poor people have unburnt brick houses without doors or windows, and without floors. Only one room. Even the business people have brick or dirt floors in their houses. A few of the richest people have really fine and good
money home about the first of August.
I am well now with the exception of a cold in my throat that causes me to cough a good bit and spit more. I caught it while out last week in cold rooms & trains. Have had a very heavy overcoat made and now hope to be able to keep warm.
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Rights
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