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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Helen Bruner, 1897, Aug. 22
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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. 22
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 6 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Helen, "I believe that I will write this letter to you because the last wasto Psyche or Mamma..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-019c
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Transcription
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The pansies are nice, but so very small — no longer than ordinary violets — probably just like the wild pansy. There are also two or three other kinds of flowers in the garden, one a sort of marigold and the other a candituft. Later there will be a number of other kinds, but they will not bloom for more than a full month.
I have just been out to breakfast (dinner) with Mr. and Mrs. James. They live almost a mile from here, and he came after me with a two — wheeled cart called a "tilbre." After dinner I walked back. Jameses always have good things to eat. Today they had fish, then "quail on toast," cauliflower, potatoes, mush and milk, toast etc. At the hotel where I take my meals the cooking is not so good. If I were to tell you all the different kind of things that I have to eat you would laugh. You know that at home I am quite particular. Here I eat the first thing they bring on the table for fear the next will be so much worse that I can't eat it at all. In this way I eat cabbage, turnips, beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic and fat meat all cooked up together. If it has plenty of broth with it it is soup, if only a little it is (?), and when all the
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Rights
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