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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Nov. 8
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Nov. 8
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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, "At to the present I have had no letter from home for about three weeks now..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-030a
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Transcription
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Nov. 8th 1897
Dear Marcia:
Up to the present I have had no letter from home for about three weeks now, but will try to write a little anyway so as to let you know I am still among the living and quite well — too well considering the kind of food that I fill up on almost every day. But I have said somuch about food in former letters that I will have to quit complaining about it.
During the past week I was up to Cordoba and several other points along the railroad between there and here. Had a rather enjoyable trip of it for the vicinity of Cordoba had been blessed with a number of good rains so that everything was nice and green, and the hills (for there are hills round about Cordoba) were bedecked with a large variety of showy flowers. Spent parts of two days at the government astronomical and meteorological observatories which are in charge of two Americans (U.S. Americans). Also took tea with Mr. and Mrs. Thome of the astronomical observatory — they are excellent Pennsylvania Dutch people, i.e. he is. She was one of the school teachers who came down here when they were still receiving good wages. Then too she found a man. Tell Seba about it. Several American teachers that I know down here were equally lucky in that respect.
While away on the trip last week I had some very excellent strawberries that I bought at Pilar (Prov. Cordoba) and Rio Secunda. It is now strawberry time down here, while at home the snow will soon be flying if it is not already doing so. How the time does fly! Only a short time ago I landed in the country and in less than four months I will be on my way back to the "Home of the brave"— the country where floats the "Star spangled banner." How glad I will be to return. Not that I have not seen things that are interesting to look upon in this country, but I think so very much more of my home, my family and the land I have always lived in.
Here in we are still waiting patiently for rain, for grass,
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Rights
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