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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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081210-1897-019f
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Transcription
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to get the insect under control within the year, or at farthest by another year. From this assertion don't infer that I expect to remain in the country longer than till about the last of February next. I am quite satisfied that by that time I will be ready to come home, I will have had enough of Argentina.
Now that the Commission speaks of sending me home via England I am thinking some of trying to arrange it that I can go by way of South Africa and through the Suez Canal if possible, and if it can be made without too much extra time. They seem to be having a good bit of trouble in Africa with grasshoppers, and according to newspaper accounts they are killing them off there by means of fungus diseases. If I can get my expenses paid to go there a couple weeks to study methods and collect the fungus I would like to do it before coming home. In case I should do so, why, of course, I would expect to start from here a month or three weeks earlier. But this is ony an "air castle" of mine as yet.
Hope that this letter will reach you all well and that you (mamma) shall have received the $1000. that I have sent you by two instalments –– one of $600. and the other $400.
Good-bye
Your Papa,
Lawrence Bruner
Aug 22
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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