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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Psyche Bruner, 1902, Feb. 19
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1902, Feb. 19
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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, "Well here we are in the capital city of this southmost…"
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Identifier
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081210-1897-091
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Transcription
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Costa Rica, Cent. Amer.
San Hose, Febr. 19/1902.
Dear Psyche:
Well here we are in the capital city of this southmost of North America republics. Our journey across the gulf of Mexico and Carribean sea was a delightful as well as rapid one. We left New Orleans on last Friday just after noon and landed in Port Limon this morning (Wednesday) at about 7 o'clock. By hurrying about real lively we got through the custom's house and took the 9 o'clock train for this place where we arrived at half after 4. The distance is about 103 miles through tropical jungle and mountains of great picturesqueness. The entire trip from the coast is like a hurried trip through an immense green house in which has been crowded great quantities of the most diverse species of plants such as are to be found in tropical countries. Nature not being satisfied with the success that was reached by occupying every inch of ground, surface and crevice among the rocks and trunks of fallen monarchs of the forest, has gone father and occupied the trunks and
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