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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1898, Jan. 30
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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. 30
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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, "Well I am back again at Caracana, after 10 days…"
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Identifier
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081210-1898-042a
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Transcription
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your accounts of handling the money affairs are quite satisfactory. You will see now from actual experience that I was not very extravigant in my expenditures. It simply took all we could earn to live on and make ends meet. The supposed extravigances did not exist in reality. Of course if we could have lived entirely to ourselves and not shared our earnings with others we could have done with less and saved one. But would we have been as well satisfied?
My last draft was mailed on December 3, so you must have it before this time. As it was for $450, you will possibly be able to pull through till I return by leaving such bills as can be postponed to that time. Hope to pay Ella off and at least $500 of Mr. Ward's father's account, and still have enough to worry through on till I can again draw on the U. of N. for wages. Will also try to arrange to continue my work here for at least 6 months after my return at $100, per month so as to finish it in directions that are still rather dark. This can be done just as well from notes gathered by means of circulars and submitted to me for study after they have all been tabulated. Shall have all of my salary for Dec. Jan. Febr. & Mch. to bring home and possibly $100 or thereabouts besides, so you see that I have not been overly extravigant in my personal expenditures here when I was obliged to pay out $500 for the University of Nebraska. Aside from necessary clothing and presents I have spent practically nothing, and these are quite small.
I am so glad to know that the children are so well, and hope that they will continue to be so all through the winter. Only wish that I could see them once in awhile. Two months, however, are not long. Just to think of it ten months after your already gone or four-fifths of the time and it seems scarcely three months since I left home only when I stop to think it all over.
Your last letters have been ever so full of news of all kinds, which together with the clippings and papers give me a pretty fair idea of the happenings at home. How I stood it at first I hardly know. Just to think of Eugene Moore in the penitentiary makes me feel sick. If he has confessions to make why does he not do so and save himself. He is foolish to shield such friends (?) as have brought him into his present position. If they have permitted him to be convicted when not alone guilty they are not worthy of protection. They should be exposed and suffer the full penalty whatever it might be.
By this time you will undoubtedly cease to write to me for I wouldn't recieve your letters anyhow. Will cable when I start and write two or three more letters
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