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Title
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Engelman to Marcia Bruner, undated
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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undated
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 6 page letter from Engelman to Marcia Bruner, "I remember well you saying you were not there when the will…"
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Identifier
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081210-1897-097b
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Transcription
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had to trust you, it was her last and dying request to protect me for she knew I loved her and had been just and worked hard to provide for her comfort. She talked so nice to me as [s]he lay there helpless. She said she was helpless and could not help me, but you would care for me and that all expense should be taken out of her interest in the property. I am glad she cannot know how you talked about me, that she can not know that you published the will and tried to collect the note that you knew had long since been paid. Her life work is ended, she cared for the old folks in town, on the ranch in South Lakota, at time when she put a lot of money in a house and lost all but the $600. I gave her of my own money to save a little for you. She cared for your family by helping to raise your children and got nothing but her board, and when her
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