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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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081210-1898-039a
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Transcription
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short time until there are more passes in my pocket; but as I said before, I am improving the time by working on my final report whenever I can possibly do so.
On New Years I was invited out to dinner at the house of a Mrs. Thomas a widow lady from the United States. She had all the Americans in this neighborhood invited, and we had a very pleasant time indeed. She is very rich — her husband having been a railroad contractor before he died a few years ago. In about two months and a half she will take her two sons to Europe to give them an education — possibly to England. Oh yes! I also had a cake sent to me on New Years day by a family of English who live near me. The old lady and her three daughters had tried to paint a large locust on a card for me, but failed to make it look right, so they sent the cake. This is what the major told me when he brought me the cake. The name of the family is St. John, pronounced here and in England "Singor." I believe.
The past week has been very hot and I have felt it exceedingly because the well water here in Carcaraña is not fit to drink, and we have to carry all our water about 2 miles. Mrs. Thomas has a large cistern with a filter in it so I have arranged to get all my drinking water there: but a jug of water don't last very long and we soon run out. Lemons are not easily to be obtained, and the sodawater of the country is not the best, being simply soda without any flower of any kind. The beer is not good, and wine I do not like, so you can imagine how much I miss the good water that we have at home.
By the way, there will be a payment of $26.84 due the New York Life Ins. Co. on Febr. 12th, but of course you will find that out for yourself by notice from the company. I do not expect to send you any more money, but will wait until I come home. If you need any I guess you can get it from Seba or some one else. All going well I will be home by 3 months from now. It pleases me just to think of it. How good it will seem to be with you and the babies once again, although the time spent here in South America has not been thrown away by any means. I have learned a great deal, and the experience gained will go with me through life.
I hope that this letter will find all of you well, and that by that time the "black bone" of winter will have been broken. Just to think of it! I writing where it is so hot that I must wipe off the sweat, and maybe all of you shivering with cold. Please remember me to all at the Uni, and if you write to West Point tell them I am
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