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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Nov. 28
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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. 28
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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, "Your letter written on the 17th of October reached me a couple days ago..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-034a
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Transcription
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with no exra clothing on hand. Will buy there if I need them. They cost too much down here and are not so satisfactory by a long way. Imagine a shirt costing $7.50 to $12 .00 and you will gain some idea of what a good garment sells for in Buenos Aires. When I say $7.50 to $12.00 I mean dollars of Argentine paper money and not of gold.
You write about being without a girl and the trials of attending to the furnace. Do not try to do everything yourself but hire a good girl, and if need be a boy or man to look after the furnace too. Don't try to be too saving and suffer in consequence. Wish I could be at home to look after some of the affairs myself. I do so miss my family and home surroundings. Can't imagine how it happens that one who is so fond of home is so very much away from home as I am. Some persons apparently care but little for there homes and home surroudnings, but are always destined to remain at home.
Thus far I have written but little about the locusts and what I have found out concerning them in this country. This is because I have as yet not found out definitely a great many points concerning which I am seeking information. Then too, it is locusts, locusts,the entire week that once a week I am glad to sit down and write a letter nearly free from the subject. Besides I am not quite ready to make any definite statements that are liable to find their way into the newspapers and in turn come back here and be misstated in Argentine papers. When I have gotten all my facts together and have prepared my report. I will make a statement in some of the United States papers that will be final — some paper that will give me an opportunity to read a proff of the article before it appears.
I am sorry to hear that Dr. DeBell has been suffering from Rheumatism. Hope that he is well before this. I simply cannot write to Ella and the others very often. I owe both father and Amy letters. Expect to write to father in a week or so also to Psyche. Will write to Amy and will try to write to Kenelm also between now and Xmas if I can possibly find the time to do so. These letters will have to be passed around. It is too hard work for one away in a foregin country to write to all his relatives and friends. Even one letter month would mean an endless task.
I have had two State Journals so far from the Journal Office direct and expect a whole batch of them before long when the mails succeed in getting through. Had another lot of papers from McCrosky's the past week — mostly old ones that you had sent or news that came in those mailed to me direct. Have been reading considerable fiction lately — at least one story a week to go to sleep by nights and while riding on trains.
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Rights
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