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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Nov. 21
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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. 21
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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, "I was glad to receive your and Seba's letters, and also that from Mr. Doone..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-032a
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Transcription
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Nov. 21st 1897
Dear Marcia:
I was glad to receive your and Seba's letters, and also that from Mr. Doane. In fact, a perfect deluge of news in the form of letters and papers has come during the week just closed. To say that these letters are about as good as being at home would be saying what would be untrue. Still they do me a lot of good. Then too, to know that Plymouth Church has arranged for all its debt is also quite encouraging although it has made quite a draft on our resources. Tell Mr. Doane that when I made the offer to pay for the paint I meant just what I said, and that I will send the amount along when I remit next. In the meanwhile if they can get it on tick well and good, or if someone else will advance the money, better. Wish I could be at home now to assist in the rejoicings of Plymouth's people. Still, in a comparatively short time, all being well, I will be. Only 3 months more, December, January and February before I start on my homeward journey. If via Europe I may even start earlier.
I expect to be in Buenos Aires again about December 1st when I shall remit to you another sum of money to last you until I return and take up the business affairs again myself. Hope then to have them so arranged that there will be less interest to pay than there has been during the past. As you write, the money paid out as interest would clothe us very respectably. But without borrowed money we could not have had the home that we have had for so many years.
Hurrah for Seba! A full principal. Will she notice me when I return now that she is boss of so many poor school mans? I wonder. Tell her that if Miss Bryan "made the riffle" there is still hope for her. Yes there is hope. Wish that she was teaching somewhere here in Argentina so that I could go and congratulate here for the advancement. As it is she must rest with a mere pen and ink congratulation. Maybe I can get a position from her now as instructor in geography. Ask her for me, please.
Just now the locust eggs are hatching about here and I hope to give my African and Argentine fungus — diseases a fair trial. We have had a couple of good rains as well as wind and dust storms. The rains have brightened things up a little and made them trifle more cheerful and bearable. The grass has commenced to grow as have also the weeds. Even now there seems a little probablity that we shall have another rain within a day or two.
Today I took dinner (noon meal) at a Mrs. Thomas, an American lady's house. Her boys are interested in the insect and bird study! And I am glad to see Americans (of the North) whenever and wherever they are. One does not think so much of a countryman except as when away from home and in a foreign land. Then a country man is something akin to a member of one's own family.
Yours & c. Lawrence Bruner
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Rights
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