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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Sept. 7
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Sept. 7
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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 just received your letter that wtas written on August 1st..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-021a
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Transcription
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I hope that school affairs will start off all O.K. when the term begins this month. Is Amy to be back in school again, or has she succeeded in finding a school? Expect that Mr. Hunter will write me as soon as he returns from his vacation out west. He was going to try and get a supply of grasshopper fungus for me to use down here. Prof Taylor wrote me that he had obtained a pass for him for that purpose. Tell Seba to write me a letter if she has the time, and to write the news. I will try to answer it if she does. I will write to one or both of the girls next time. Would write to them oftener but it requires time to write letters, and I am not supplied with an over abundance of it. Don't know whether you can read all of this cross-writing, so I must quit.
Good bye. Kiss for each and all. Yours, L. Bruner
Sept. 7th 1897
Dear Marcia:–
I have just received your letter that was written on August 1st. It seems that one of my letters must have been a little slow in reaching you for you complain of not receiving any for 2 weeks. I certainly wrote one 8 days after the one you did receive. In fact I have writeen 12 since I reached Argentina addressed to you, Psyche or Helen. This is the 13th. Besides these I wrote 3 to Hunter, 1 to Taylor and 1 to Prof. Bessey. In addition to these I have written 1 to Amy, 1 to Father and 1 to Ella — all of which you are apt to hear about. You see I keep track of all the letters I write. Long before this you will have received letters notifying you of the fact that I have regained my usual health and that I am fatter and saver than ever. I will now add that I have grown a beard ala Prof. Fling, and that my hair is falling out quite rapidly. Whether this latter is due to my sickness soon after coming to the country, or whether it is the natural consequence of old age I cannot say. Still it remains as a stubborn fact. Hope it will not "come in curly."
About mails. Don't worry if you do not receive letters regularly every week. I will try to write them at least that often but I cannot always regulate the time they will require in reaching you. About 5 steamsers leave Buenos Aires each week that are liable to take mail. Most of these go to Europe and there the mail for the U.S. is transferred to steamers sailing for New York, Philadelphia, Boston or Baltimore as the case may be. About twice each month steamers sail for New York direct. If a letter happens to catch one of these it reaches there in about 26 to 30 days. In Buenos Aires McCrosky's can keep track of the steamers and by directing their letters via some particular vessel can reach there a full week or may be even 10 days earlier than a letter that "runs its own chances." I might write a letter today to you and it would reach Buenos Aires tomorrow morning. Should a steamer be sailing for Liverpool in the afternoon it would go by that steamer. Perhaps another steamer would be leaving on the following morning for N.Y. direct by which McCrosky's would send mail. The result would be that the mail sent a day later would reach home a
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Rights
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