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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Psyche Bruner, 1897, Aug. 10
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Aug. 10
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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, "I first thought that I would write to Aunt Sela..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-017a
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Transcription
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come home. If I go up to Paraguay and Bolivia I will write you again from there or when I come back. To go to Bolivia I would have to ride mule back for a whole.
Good bye, your papa
Lawrence Bruner
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aug. 10th 1897
Dear Psyche:–
I first thought that I would write to Aunt Seba toniht but then I changed my mind and will write this letter to you. By the time you receive this school will have began and maybe you will be studying your geography about South America, and very likely about Argentine Republic. If you do you can think of your Papa who is way down here learning about the geography of the country too. But I am learning my geography by travelling about over the country. In two months I have travelled about more than 4,000 miles. I have been up to Tucuman twice, to Salta once, to Cordoba twice, down to Buenos Aires 3 times, to Rosario 8 or 10 times and up nearly to Paraguay 3 times. Perhaps I will go quite there next week or even sooner. I have asked the "grasshopper commission" to get me a pass up to Asuncion and Consepcion and back, and if it comes I will start at once so as to get back in time to go up to Bolivia before hot weather commences. Later I want to go south and west so as to see some of Patogonia and Chile.
The most of the people here are Indians that are partly civilized. They live in houses, but not very good ones, and many of them dress very curiously. The men wear "bloomers" made of white cotton cloth, but they are a little longer than bicycle bloomers because they come down to the ankles. On sundays or when they go to town they put on black ones if they have them. When it is cold they wear a poncho or kind of shawl around their legs too to help keep them warm; also one over their heads and shoulders. A poncho, a sort of shawl that has a slit in the middle through which the men put their heads and then let it hang down in front and behind. The poncho which is worn over the pants is fastened to a belt and put on something like Alice's "didies" are, only that the baggy part hangs down behind almost to the knees. It hangs loose so they can walk. Little people do not wear very much of anything. Boys have a thin cotton shirt and pants that come a little below their knees. Girls have a calico dress — that is all. Sometimes they have stockings and home-made shoes, but not very often even in winter. But I can't take the time to tell
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Rights
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