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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Oct. 31
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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. 31
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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, "Well it is Sunday afternoon again and I am just starting to write my weekly letter home..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-029a
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Transcription
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Oct. 31st 1897
Dear Marcia:
Well it is Sunday afternoon again and I am just starting to write my weekly letter home although there is but little to write. Have not had a letter from home so cannot answer any possible questions that you might have asked. Wish that I could be at home this P.M. then wouldn't need to write.
During the past week I staid here at so as to continue some experiments that I had underway for the possible destruction of the Argentine locust. On Thursday had gotten so far along with these experiments that I sent a short report on the subject to the Comission at Buenos Aires. I send you a paper in which a mention of this experimentation is printed. Also, a little editorial and one or two other notes with reference to locust matters. Please cut these articles out and save them as I am keeping all the scraps for future use. May want to write a thesis on Argentine Locusts for my "master's" degree, now that I have my first as I udnerstand from one of your letters. Haven't anything in particular to say about this action of the U. of N. authorities in my case. So will merely keep still. If I had something to say would have done so when I first heard about it.
We are still in need of rain in this particular vicinity, but when it will come I cannot say since there are no signs of rain. Then you know that "all signs of rain fail in dry weather." The grass and grain is all dried up. The swarms of locusts have left and now all is quiet here. Even the breeding cages that I have been keeping going for the past 2 or 3 months are about empty.
Expect to start out again either tomorrow or next day for a couple week's run over the northern part of the Republic. Then I will begin to do a little travelling further southward so that I wll be ready to go across teh mountains to Chile by the first of the year. How the time flies! Just think of it, I only have 4 months more at the most to remain in the country, and perhaps will get through in less time than that. The 5 months that I have been here have gone rather quickly — especially the tast two. In fact, October has seemed barely longer than a week in passing.
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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