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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1898, Feb. 9
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1898, Feb. 9
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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 did not write my usual letter on Sunday because I was rather tired and had nothing special to write about."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-043a
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Transcription
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connects at Rio de Janeiro with the regular Lamport and Holt line for New York it might be as late as the 5th to 7th of April befroe I could reach home. Of course now that I have worked hard and done my best I would hate to see the report made a botch by the proofreaders who know nothing about the subject whatever. Possibly too, there will be war with Spain by that time and I may be obliged to return via the west coast and California to avoid being captured by Spain. Who knows? But I am not worrying so as to lose either sleep or flesh.
As yet I have been unable to get word of your package which you sent me for Xmas. You had better go and see the express company and have them find and return it to you or pay for it. It will not reach me now since is has been over 3 months since you sent it.
My report will be quite well illustrated with colored plate, photoengravings and zinc etchings. If the printing is done as carefully as I have tried to do my report if had ought to be the best work that I ever had done. It will possibly change the ideas of the natives about me and my work a little. Some of the things which appear in the newspapers occasionally are sufficient to "make a horse laugh". Just the other day the "Capital" of Rosario printed an article of half column entitled "El Fiasco de Brunner." Two days later in the same paper at just about the same peace on the front page was quarter column denoted to "Rehabilitando a Brunner;" and so they go merrily on. The whole matter rather amuse me than otherwise. In fact, the first title sounds so well that I told Mr. James that if ever I had a boy I would give him that for a name."
I expect to return to tomorrow night or not later than Friday night where I will spend about a week in pakcing up for home. After that I will have nothing to do but looking after the printing of the report and getting ready for home. By the time this letter reaches you I may be a thousand miles or more on my way. How quickly the year has passed and how little has been really accomplished!
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Rights
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