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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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081210-1897-030b
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Transcription
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flowers and the dust to settle. Several times within the past three weeks rain clouds have gathered but were each time blown away by pamperos. Only yesterday we thought rain was coming surely, but the wind shifted to the southwest at about noon and has been blowing a cold gale ever since.
Todayor rather yesterday a man brought a live armadillo, the kind known in this country as "peludo", to me. I wish that I could bring it home alive. It would shurely be an interesting pet to have. They become very tame in a short time and live on scraps from the table as well as on insects etc. Maybe I will try to bring a pair of them along if I happen to find them just before I start for home.
My man "Friday" is scrubbing today. The rooms had become almost dirty to look well and the fleas were really quite bad so I suggested that he scrub the floors with carbolated water so as to kill them. Not that there was any need of cleaning the floors for they have been swept regularly at least twice a week and sometimes oftener for the past three months and a half. Then too it is too windy and cold outside to collect insects or gather plants if there were any of the latter to gather hereabouts. I myself have been working at my desk ever since a little past six this morning save when I went out to dinner (breakfast as they call it here). It is now nearly 3 o'clock. Have been trying to make out the names of some insects that I brought with me from Cordoba last Sturday, but have succeeded only with a few of them. How I do miss my library down here. None of the libraries in Argentina are very full in Orthoptera literature, not even the national library in Buenos Aires. I must have already as many as twenty five or thirty undescribed species in my collection made since coming into the country. At this rate there may be a full hundred by the time I am ready to sail. At any rate I will have a little something to do to pass time with when I return home. I expect to name them too so as to show these people down here that a North American is capable of doing a little more work than is done by the average Argentinian during the same length of time. Will have a fine lot of excellent material for the Uni. of Nebr. also — more than I imagined that I would be able to get together during the year. my man is getting to be quite a good collector considering that he knew nothing whatever about such when I hired him.
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Rights
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