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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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081210-1897-029b
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Transcription
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If the next few months pass as rapidly they will soon be gone and I will be on my way to North America again. Have not been down to Buenos Aires since early in September so haven't seen the MccCrosky's but have had a letter from each and another lot of "Outlooks" and "Nebraska State Journals". The last lot contained a good bit about University folks and affairs all of which I was quite glad to read.
By this time you must begin to feel the fall weather more or less keenly. Of course you will have the furnace going before this letter reaches you. My last draft will reach you either this week or next so you will have some money to spend till I can send again about the 1st of December. Had I known it in time I would have arranged to send you a "Christmas box". There was a steamer at Rosario which left yesterday direct for New York, and I might have given the captain the box and had him express it from N.Y. to you on his arrival there. May have another chance though before too late. Will keep a lookout. If not, you must get your own Xmas presents this year and wait till I come home for those from me.
I noticed in one of the State Journals that Prof F.W. Taylor had received a letter from me. Am glad that you don't give all my letters out for publication because I have been "in the papers" enough during the past 7 months to last me awhile, both here and in North America and Europe. I could have been quite prominently before the people here in Argentina ever since I arrived had I desired to pay any attention to newspaper assertions and cared to reply to them. Just today I have been obliged to refute a certain report that I am credited with; viz. that the locusts here lay from eight to eleven times before they die. But such is the result of happening to know a little more than ordinary mortals on some particular subject.
I have been invited out to dinner twice recently both times to Mr. Jameses. These meals at a private house are quite a treat to me, since they give me a rest on garlic and other formidable foods of like nature. Still were you to see me now you would certainly not think that I was starving myself to avoid such food as I would fire out of the back door at home were you to offer it to me. I weighted today in shirtsleeves 173lbs — more than at any other time in my life. Still I manage to get about over the ground about as fast as anybody and do not feel so very uncomfortable either. Wishing you all good health and a pleasant fall. I remain yours.
Lawrence Bruner
P.S. Please ask Mr. Hunter whether they copy of the Australian Agricultural Journal which was sent to Mr. James is to be returned.
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Rights
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