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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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081210-1897-021b
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Transcription
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full week ahead of the letter mailed a day earlier and going via Liverpool, Lisbon, Brehmen, or Lyons. If I were in Buenos Aires I would keep track of the sailings of steamers so as to get mail through as quickly as possible. Here and all over the Republic I cannot do this. Try and be patient as possible and the letters will reach you in due time. You hope that I will write a few more letters before next April. I hope that I may be able to do so. I should write about two doezen in that time as it is still a little less than 6 months before my time will be up here. If, however, the locusts all disappear within the next few months, as they seem to be doing now, I may arange to return a month or two earlier. Wouldn't that be glorious?
I still contemplate making the Paraquay trip and intend to start on Monday next, pass or no pass. The members of the Commission are not all as active as Canfield was so the pass has not yet been asked for although a full month has elapsed since I urged them to do so. Even when on my trips over the country I do not entirely neglect my writing home as you will discover if you note the headings of some of my letters.
I am glad to know that Psyche was so much better when you wrote, and that you are also feeling better yourself. Just try to keep so yourself and try to keep the little ones well. But of course you need no urging on this this line. Do as you think best with reference to the operation; but don't let any doctor simply work you for the money they might be able to collect. Hope that Seba will get a principalship but would like to see her located nearer home. Still, with the cars running themselves as they do she could make the trip from home except during the stormiest of weather when she could arrange to stay with some of the families near the schoolhouse. Sorry that the girl that you brought home with you from West Point does not want to stay. She should think of me as being a little ways from home too, and among strangers.
Spring is rather slow in developing down here. We had another frost last night but it is a little warmer again today. It is now quarter past 2 P.M. and I can work quite comfortably at the desk without any fire — not even a lamp burrning in the house.
Glad to hear that Mrs. Gehring has been able to dispose of her property, that is if she got anything for it. What is Eugene Moore doing, and how is he coming on with his affairs? As I said in my last, write me some news. I like to hear from home but I would also like to know about a few additional people and things. How are the University affairs progressing. Mr. Hunter has not written to me for quite a while now.
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Rights
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