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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Oct. 24
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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. 24
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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, "Your letter that was written Sept. 12th came day before yeserday after doing by way of France."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-027a
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Transcription
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Oct. 17th 1897
Dear Marcia:—
Your letter that was written on Sept. 12th came day before yesterday after going by way of France. You should have put on 10 cts of postage for when it reached Buenos Aires there was 30 cts postage due. Of course the American minister had to pay this amount before forwarding to me. The clippings which you had inclosed made the excess. All other countries make the ordinary inland limit for letters about 1/2 the weight that we do. The clippings were just what I wanted. They gave me some news outside of the imediate family circle — something that I do not get very often down here unless McCrosky's happen to think of me and send thier State JournalsSunday and clippingsfrom week day issues which her folks send them regularly each week. Then too I occasionally get to see New York and Pennsylvania papers at Mr. James's house; but these latter only have general news and not Nebraska and Lincon.
I have a copy of the notice you speak of with my picture surrounded by grasshoppers so you needn't worry about it any longer. In fact I have two copies of it, and send you one herewith. Please save it.
During the past week I have remained here in caring for the insects in breeding cages and trying experiments with fungus diseases which latter have been more or less satisfactory in killing the winged insects, though it is on the young or "jumpers" that I expect the best work to be accomplished. Quite a number of the winged insects are now dying hereabouts — partly from the infection from cages and partly from the disease as contracted from those that had died in grass clumps in March, April, and May last. If we only had a little more rain at present I beleive that the disease would spread very rapidly both naturally and artificially. The greatest need of the country now is rain. The drouth is excessive in this part of the country at least, and has already caused much more harm to crops and pastures than have the locusts. Whether or not rain now would be of much use in making the wheat crop I cannot say since I do not know enough about conditions here to tell. If not, then there will be as much suffering among the colonists as
P.S. I forgot to mention the fact that I am well, am still increasing in weight, and am so thoroughly inpregnated with the fumes of onions and garlic that it will take at least a full year to become thoroughly "aired" out, though I air as much as possible all the time. Lawrence
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Rights
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