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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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081210-1897-027b
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Transcription
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we had in western Nebraska and Kansas a couple years ago on account of drouth.
Spring has now begun in earnest and I will not be obliged to write you any more about my sufferings from the cold — at least I hope that I will not. The true, what few there are about here are now green. Insects are beginning to be quite plentiful and my man "Friday" is kept quite busy collectig them and caring for them afterwards. He is getting to be of considerable help to me now and if he continues to improve as rapidly from now on he will succeed in bringing together quite a good collection. During the week that has just closed we collected good series of 9 different kinds of Orthoptera. There were all kinds that lived through winter as jumpers and have gotten their wings just recently. The great majority of these insects are still the egg stage awaiting rain before they can hatch. During December and January will be the big months for collecting them. I have already made arrangements with a couple boys who are now in school, but who will then have their summer vacation, to help in making a collection of insects. They have a collection themselves and I have promised to help them about names and classifcation in return for what they will do for me.
During the coming week I will probably take another trip to some part of the Republic west or southwest of here, but just where I cannot tell at present. Perhaps to Mendoza and from there to Buenos Aires and back here. Should I do so, hope to see a much more interesting region than any yet visited by me. For later I am beginning to plan a trip across the Andes to Valpraiso Chile and then south through the center of that country as far as railroads run, after which I will recross the Andes and return by way of horseback, boat, stage and railroad to Bahia Blanka and Buenos Aires. This will be my southern trip and I hope to have a man along with me who is well acquainted with the region—an Englishman by the name of Philips. On this trip I hope to have some downright pleasure and to be among the mountains and fine scenery. Hardly expect to start on this trip before Christmas or New Year's, or possibly still later. It will require from three to four weeks to make it.
By a week, or at most, two weeks from now you will have received another draft of $400 . with which to pay expenses and possibly some of Ella Westfall's note. I shall remit again about the 1st of December, and then perhap not again till I return home unless I should be going via South Africa or Europe and wouldn't care to carry so much money along with me. Have not yet found any diamonds even a gold mine of fabulous wealth but hope to before I have finished with the country, otherwise my trip to South America would have me a poor man save in experience.
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Rights
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