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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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081210-1897-013b
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Transcription
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really good houses.
The country over which I travelled while away from here last week is most very flat and without trees. Hardly any streams of water are found and these are very poor to drink. Most of the people, judging from their looks, think it is not fit to wash in either. About Tucuman and Cordoba there are mountains and some snow can be seen on their summits. There are districts covered with forest too; but these do not look like forests in our country. The trees are nearly all low and scraggly and many of them look more like apple trees than forest trees.
In Tucuman and around about there I saw large groves of orange trees loaded with ripe fruit. But they looked fine. I wish all of you could have seen them. Then too, there were great plantations of sugar cane and quite a number of sugar factories scattered about over the country making the entire scene a strange one.
I have hired a young Sweitzer to collect birds for the University of Nebraska and hope to bring home a large number of fine specimens. He will go with me up north in a week or so where we may stay a whole month. I to study the hoppers and he to help about the camp work and to collect specimens. I must talk German to him, so I am learning two languages while down here — German and Spanish. Only I can talk German much better than I can the Spanish.
I had too much to do to keep up my letters to you like the one I wrote from Pernambuco. I will try to write at least one letter a week home but can't write a letter to each one that often. Tell Helen to wait for a letter the next time I write — about next Sunday. I will write one to mamma then too. Try and help mamma all you can by being a good girl.
Your Papa,
Lawrence Bruner
I expect to go down to Buenos Aires on Thursday of this week to see the members of the "Locust Investigating Committee," and to draw pay for June and to collect the money that I paid out for expenses during the month. I will need about half of the money for use here in paying for clothing, things for bringing home with me and in paying for University specimens. Will send some more
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Rights
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