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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Oct. 10
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Oct. 10
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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, "Today has been a great mail day for me. Five letters from home, i.e."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-025b
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Transcription
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nor anything approximating extermination. Yet the plague is on the decline, and I hope to be able to witness its downfall before I leave the country a little over 4 months from now. If only I can get one of all the diseases to work well on the insects during the young stage the destruction will take but a short time. Otherwise there will have to be a great deal of hard work done by the citizens of all infested regions. Even if the work so well begun is continued, the plague cannot last much longer notwithstanding their great productiveness. Ordinarily nature keeps this and all other insects within certain comparatively harmless limits, so when we add to nature's checks such artificial devices as mentioned above the balance must soon be again established.
Although I have still much country to go over before I can judge for myself all the pros and cons of the work before me, I hope to be a little more at headquarters than I have been in the past. Today the locusts have arrived here in , and I will have every opportunity that is needed for their further study.
By the way, the insects which Mr. Hunter's brother sent to me arrived today. Instead of being what I wrote for they are something else. They are Hippiscus tuberculatus. I want Schistocera americana, the insect figured on page 10 of Bulletin No. 28, U.S. Dept. Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Mr. Hunter can surely recognize the insect if he looks for it himself. There are specimens of it in one of the cabinets at the U. of. N. from Oklahoma, and quite a number of others at the house. I want the specimens to settle a point in reference to the classification of the Argentine locust.
The letters from home, although satisfying me as to how all of you are getting on, make me feel a little homesick. Of course I wish that you were all here, or what would be still better, that I was at home with all of you around me. You must be quite an interesting sight, you and the 3 girls hanging about like forlorn chickens. Wish I could see just how the group looks. Tell Seba, dear old girl, that I appreciate here care of the family during my absence, and tht I will try and answer her better before very long. She must have quite a weight to carry in the form of worry if she tries to fill my place in all particulars. Will write to the girls, Psyche and Helen before long too. Will wait however until after I have visited some new region so as to have more to tell about. Tell Kenelm also that I will write to him if possible but in the meanwhile he can read my letters to you folks.
According to the Journal's reports Nebraska must be booming again so far as crops and the farmers are concerned. How is it?
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