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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1898, Jan. 2
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1898, Jan. 2
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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 will at last begin a letter home tonight although…"
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Identifier
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081210-1898-039
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Transcription
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Dear Marcia:-
I will at last begin a letter home tonight although it is quite time that I was taking my bath and going to bed. Have been quite fully occupied lately hence am a little tired and Sunday night is a good time to catch up with sleep when one is behind. As usual when at home, as well as when away from home I have managed to get considerably behind in sleep. During the last week there has been considerable locust fighting going about here, and I wanted to superintend as well as test for myself the various methods so as to be able to tell just how valuable each is. Then too I began writing my final report, topic by topic, taking one each day and comepleting it. By taking this method I hope to have it nearly or quite finished by the first of next month. Then the proof reading will follow and if the printers rush matters I hope to get away for home on time maybe to go via Europe.
I have not had a letter from home for some time, and news are getting scarcer and scarcer each succeeding Sunday so my letters begin to shorten. This is chiefly due to the fact that I have not taken any trips lately. Hope to do a little more traveling while still in the country. Would like to visit a few of the points of interest if possible; and there are still several districts of the Republic that I am very anxious to visit on the Court's account. One of these is Mendoza and across the Andes to nothern Chile passing quite close to old Mt. Aconcagua, which, I believe is about as high as any mountain in all South America. Have had a letter from a Mr. Edwin C. Reed who lives in Chile inviting me to pay him a visit. He is an entomologist and has done some work on Chilian orthoptera as well as on other orders of insects. At present he is engaged in studying the likes of that country for the government. He is at the head of the Fish Commission, I believe. At any rate he is working for the Govt. and juding from what he wrote me I imagine that such is the case.
I have only one new pass so far this year so cannot do any travelling for a
still "intending" to write to them somtime. After you recieve this letter you will not have a chance of sending me a reply till I come home. There will not be any time for it to reach me.
I will cable when I start for home so you will hear from me the last thing before I leave the country.
Good bye. Kiss to each yourself and the girls.
Yours
Lawrence Bruner
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