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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Psyche Bruner, 1897, Dec. 5
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Dec. 5
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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 Psyche Bruner, "According to promise I now site down to write you a letter from a point nearly..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-036
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Transcription
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Dec. 5 1897
Dear Psyche:
According to promise I now sit down to write you a letter from a point nearly 500 miles further away from home than when I wrote to mamma the day before yesterday. This is nearly as far south as I expect to get while in South America. If you will look in your geography you will see that I am almost to Patagonia. The country between Buenos Aires and here is very flat most of the way, but part of the time we were in sight of mountains, not very high ones, but quite a change to the very level country that one sees over the greater part of Argentine Republic where I have been. It is nearly as level as a floor from here to Santiago del Estero which is pretty well to the north or quite 1000 miles. Then too from Buenos Aires to nearly the base of the Andes Mts.Mountains it is said to be just as flat and without scenery.
Ever since early this morning — about half past 4 o'clock till after 4 this afternoon, we were passing great droves or flocks of sheep. There are millions of them kept on the vast level pampas. I must have seen more sheep to-day than all put together before. Besides sheep there were also many cattle and horses and a few ostriches and two or three kinds of other large birds that walk about the country in flocks of a half dozen
from your Papa. L. Bruner.
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Rights
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