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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Aug. 19
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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. 19
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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 Marcia Bruner, "I have been waiting for a letter from home for the last week so have no written quite as quickly as I otherwise would have."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-018a
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Transcription
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aug. 19th 1897
Dear Marcia:–
I have been waiting for a letter from home for the last week so have not writeen quite as quickly as I otherwise would have. Whether or not the letters come in good time and then are allowed to lie about for some time in the office of the American Minister and Buenos Aires, I cannot say. I would have all my mail addressed to me direct only it is safer to come through Mr. Buchanan's hands. Then too, he always knows where I can be reached.
You will remember that in my last I said that I was figuring on a trip into either Paraguay or Bolivia soon. Well, I am still figuring. I have been intending to make both trips during the winter months while there is less to do here in the Republic. If the authorities in Buenos Aires don't soon "get a move on themselves" and get me the necessary passes etc. the time will slip by and I cannot make either of the journeys as important as they are in the locust studies. I do not see why people are so very slow about things of importance. If they cannot get the passes why do they keep me waiting without letting me know about it. I could then go and pay my way and afterwards collect it from the commission. But such a thought does not seem to enter their minds.
In the meanwhile I am here at Carcaraña doing office work towards the preparation of my final report at the end of the year. I am also collecting insects and trying to work out the names of the few Orthoptera that I have thus far succeeded in getting hold of. This is sort of uphill business with only a very few books. A great many of the insects that really occur within the country do not appear to have thus far been reported from Argentina. My list of the order, will therefore be quite a surpirse to the "native" entomologists who have been working (?) the group for years. Just to think of it, only a few more than 100 Orthoptera reported from so large a country as Argentina! — a country with such a varied surface configuration, and one exending from the tropics to 55 degrees south latitude. Why, there should be at least 400 species instead. Of course I do not
P.S. I inclose herewith a duplicate of the sight draft for that I sent you just 2 weeks ago. If you received the other do not use this but put it away after marking across one end "Origianl paid." L. Bruner
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Rights
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