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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Karl S. Hoffman, 1918

1918-06-14 Bob Browning to Karl Hoffman Page 1

Flag Day.

Dear Lieutenant - 
Just now the good word in an Iowa City paper that was forwarded here by Mother. Congratulations. I have a pair of near-gold bars that I've worn as long as I want to that I'd like to send to you if you'd care for them and will tell me your new address. The bars are nearly new, but my tastes [illegible] to plain silver rather than the gaudy now so that I'm not making much of a sacrifice. I gave one bar to Miss McCarthy and expect to give one to Mother, Dr. Williams has one bar and a lieutenant in my company has another so that this third pair will be good for nothing but a scrapbook if you don't have use for it.
Our regiment feels as home [guardy?] as ever. Two of our captains were made Majors and ordered to Dodge last Monday so that makes some of us feel that the only way to France is through promotion out of the 36th. I'm I don't know how many [files?] from a captaincy so that I feel that my chances of seeing France at Uncle Samuel's expense are not extraordinarily bright.
Tell me all about your new outfit. Where you are, what you're doing "and everything".

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Flag Day. Dear Lieutenant - Just now the good word in an Iowa City paper that was forwarded here by Mother. Congratulations. I have a pair of near-gold bars that I've worn as long as I want to that I'd like to send to you if you'd care for them and will tell me your new address. The bars are nearly new, but my tastes [illegible] to plain silver rather than the gaudy now so that I'm not making much of a sacrifice. I gave one bar to Miss McCarthy and expect to give one to Mother, Dr. Williams has one bar and a lieutenant in my company has another so that this third pair will be good for nothing but a scrapbook if you don't have use for it. Our regiment feels as home [guardy?] as ever. Two of our captains were made Majors and ordered to Dodge last Monday so that makes some of us feel that the only way to France is through promotion out of the 36th. I'm I don't know how many [files?] from a captaincy so that I feel that my chances of seeing France at Uncle Samuel's expense are not extraordinarily bright. Tell me all about your new outfit. Where you are, what you're doing "and everything".