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Title
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Lillie C. Bruner to Lawrence Bruner, 1897, Nov. 7
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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. 7
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 10 page letter from Lillie C. Bruner to Lawrence Bruner, "We read several of your letters sent from home…"
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Identifier
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081210-1897-087d
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Transcription
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The wagon cover is over a wagon-box and Mr. Sexton and the boys sleep in it. I sleep on a cot in the mill-house. I fold it up in the day-time.
The mill-house is our kitchen, dining, & sitting room & every-thing combined. We have an old stove outdoors and until three weeks ago what cooking was done was done on it. It was very windy a great deal of the time, and about 2/3 of the time we ate bread and milk. The milk is very good and was satisfying, but when it was cold and chilly and without fire, some-thing warm would have been preferable. Three weeks ago we read Ida's small oil stove or lamp with one burner, and during the storm and wet weather we had something warm to eat and
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