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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Karl S. Hoffman, 1918

1918-06-09 Bob Browning to Karl Hoffman Page 2

the fourteen or fifteen 1st. Lts. J.R.C. sent from here to be instructors.
We (our battalion) has been on the range the last week. Officers can't shoot for a record but I had some fun showing [brew?] shots that this trouble was not with their Springfields but with the men behind the guns.
I'm hoping to get down to Mediapolis some week-end soon, and if that is impossible I want mother to come up here. She wants me to come down while the N.N.N's are having their houseparty but I don't know whether I'll be able to do it or not.
Have been going to the theater frequently. Saw David Warfield, Maud Adams, Otis Skinner, Cyril Maude, Ruth St. Denis and others this spring and expect to see Robt. Mantell in Shakespeare two or three times this week.
I had a dandy canoe picnic a couple of weeks ago with a couple of Kappas and an Aggie from Minn. U. Miss McCarthy was with me, as usual, and we had a lot of fun cooking supper, getting rained on, and coming back down the river in the face of a pretty stiff breeze.
Father was here about a month ago to see me made a master Mason.
Nothing else in particular has happened.
Tell me how things look from where you are, and I'll try to reply more or less promptly.  Really I will.
Sincerely
Bob

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the fourteen or fifteen 1st. Lts. J.R.C. sent from here to be instructors. We (our battalion) has been on the range the last week. Officers can't shoot for a record but I had some fun showing [brew?] shots that this trouble was not with their Springfields but with the men behind the guns. I'm hoping to get down to Mediapolis some week-end soon, and if that is impossible I want mother to come up here. She wants me to come down while the N.N.N's are having their houseparty but I don't know whether I'll be able to do it or not. Have been going to the theater frequently. Saw David Warfield, Maud Adams, Otis Skinner, Cyril Maude, Ruth St. Denis and others this spring and expect to see Robt. Mantell in Shakespeare two or three times this week. I had a dandy canoe picnic a couple of weeks ago with a couple of Kappas and an Aggie from Minn. U. Miss McCarthy was with me, as usual, and we had a lot of fun cooking supper, getting rained on, and coming back down the river in the face of a pretty stiff breeze. Father was here about a month ago to see me made a master Mason. Nothing else in particular has happened. Tell me how things look from where you are, and I'll try to reply more or less promptly. Really I will. Sincerely Bob