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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1902, Mar. 1
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1902, Mar. 1
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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 Marcia Bruner, "We, Mr. Leary and I, have returned from a trip…"
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Identifier
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081210-1897-092
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Transcription
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San Jose, Costa Rica,
Mch. 1st, 1902.
Dear Marcia:-
We, Mr. Cary and I, have returned from a trip in the country where we were collecting specimens and seeing the sights. We were away just a week and during that time did quite a little in the way of securing material. At first we went by railroad to the town of Cartago, and then hired pack animals to carry our luggage up the slopes of Mt. Irazu to an estancia belonging to Señor Don Ricardo Jiminez where we were to remain as a headquarters from which to do our work and sight seeing. The elevation above the sea of Cartago is about 5,000 ft. whilte the headquarters was 9,000 and the summit of the mountain nearly 12,000 feet. Irazu is one of the highest peaks in Central America and still shows a few signs of activity. Only about 60 years in an eruption accompanied by an earthquake the old town and then capital of Cartago was destroyed. On this mountain we found quite cold weather, so cold in fact that two double blankets were hardly warm enough even with all our clothes on. On the top of the mountain quite a little ice formed during the night, and was visible even as late as 9 o'clock in
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