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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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081210-1897-018b
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Transcription
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Texpect to find more than half of all these during the next 6 months — the remaining time that I have in the country and only a small portion of which time can be spent in collecting insects. I shall, however, try to insist a number of person in collecting for me at various points over the Republic, and in this way do considerably better than I could hope to do single handed. But enough of this! You will become tired of so much about myself in every letter. But what else is there to write about? You do not know any body down here except Mr. McCrosky, and I see very little of her # or him either.
The weather has been miserable ever since I came to the country. Raw and chilly, and today it looks like rain. The wind has been blowing from the south — the cold direction — for an entire week now. When I moved into my present quarters, a little house of 3 rooms I did not think it worth the while to buy a kerosene stove to warm it. Hence I have been suffering most of the time since here. When writing and looking up insect names I usually keep my lamp burning on the the table before me and a very small oil water heater going behind me. In this manner I manage to exist in a sort of fashion.
My man continues to collect new birds from day to day, and now has about 140 specimens on hand — pretty nearly all the kinds that are to be found in this vicinity during the winter months. Still, I have him go on collecting some of the kinds that he already has hoping that ere long the weather will moderate and the spring migrations will bring us new birds in plenty. In fact, even though the weather has been so "beastly cold," as Mr. Schwarg would say, he had brought in 6 or 8 new arrivals. Some of the birds are really beautiful and I will bring home enough of these to fill another case for ourselves. I make these skins myself so as to be sure they are well put up. This work I usually do by lamp light as a change from the daylight desk work.
I am keeping rather well now, and have a good appetite notwithstanding the abominable food that I am obliged to eat. I weigh more now than I ever did — about 173 lbs. The clothes I had made soon after arriving in the country are quite uncomfortable to wear. They have not been washed, so have not shrunken.
Hope that you and the little folks, as well as Seba and Grace and the ballance of the family keep well.
Yours as ever
Lawrence Bruner
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Rights
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