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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Helen 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 4 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Helen Bruner, "I forgot to say in my letter to Mamma that I am so glad to hear that all of you have been so well."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-033c
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Transcription
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are so nice. This bird is not as large as the African ostrich, and is called the Rhea here.
Oh but there are so many funny things in this country that a person never gets tired of studying about them or looking at them. If you were here you would be with me nearly all the time while I am pinning insects or stuffing grasshoppers. But I am glad you are at home with Mamma, Aunt Seba, Grace, Psyche and the baby. Here there are so many fleas, and you couldn't go to school. Then too you might get sick, and you know it is not nice to be sick with anything, but fevers are worse.
There are lots of queer flowers too. Morning-glories that grow on bushes and milkweeds that grow like watermelon vines with the pods hanging on like cucumbers. Then there are lizzards without legs and that have both ends so near alike that it is hard to tell which is the head and which the tail end. Even the four–footed animals are some of them very peculiar. Instead of being hairy they have all the upperside and head and tail covered with a kind of hard shell like a turtle. I have two
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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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