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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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081210-1897-036b
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Transcription
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But only day before yesterday when I visited the National Museum in Buenos Aires I saw the most peculiar one of all, I believe. It is about the size of a mole or a pocket gopher at home. it is something like both of them too, in some respects, but also quite different. It has the lower side covered with long soft white hair like that on the Eskimo doll, but the upper half is entirely bare of hair and scaley like an armadillo. It is almost blind and lives under the ground just like the gophers and moles and has very long and strong claws for digging. sketch of the animal. It is only found near Mendoza just at the foot of the Andes. I will try very hard to get a specimen or two when I go to Mendoza next week. Then there is another animal that rolls itself into a ball sketch of animal rolled into ball so that a dog cannot get at it. It is also covered with a hard bony shell. Will try to get it too. There are animals belonging to three quite different groups but all have the shell like a turtle. The armadillos, the little blind "pinche", and the "metaca". One is a mole or between the mole and pocket gopher, another a hedge hog, and the others near the anteaters. One of them also has a pouch or pocket in which she carries her little "metacas", at least so I have been told.
Tomorrow if I can get the time I intend to take a bath in the ocean, and also do some insect collecting. The grasshoppers are quite plentiful down here now,
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Rights
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