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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, April-June 1918

1918-05-16 Robert M. Browning To Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 3

Otis Skinner in "Mister Antonio." I am enclosing an invitation I received Tuesday. The girls at the house had appointed Miss McC. and her roommate as the invitations committee. They wanted a rhyme and "passed the buck" to me. That was Saturday afternoon. I surprised them by phoning the enclosed over Sunday morning. It's not very clever, I admit, but it satisfied the girls and should make it easy for me to have a good time at their picnic.
Margaret Anglis, Cyril Maudem and Robert B. Mantell are to be here within the next month or so, ans that Norwegian actress, Madame Hammer? I believe it is, is to appear in some of Ibsen's plays next week.
The Fort is very beautiful this time of year. Father was here for the week-end about ten days ago, coming up to see me made a Master Mason. He was rather surprised at our Post as it was a bit different from his idea, I think. He commented more than once on the officers. Guess he had thought we were a rough-neck bunch, not knowing that being "an officer and a gentleman" by act of congress and the order of the President" isn't as free for all as it sometimes looks.
I'm expecting Mother to come up next month. Wish you could come, too. She wants me to come home instead, but I'd feel safer if I kept away from the vicinity of the University. I might get homesick if I went back to Iowa again, and I don't want to get homesick until after the War.
Saw the lists of phi beta kappa elections. The first one surprised me a little.
Got my first baptism of gas yesterday. went into the gas house full of a choking and lachrymetory mixture so thick I could hardly see and heard a short lecture (ten or fifteen minutes). This was with masks on. The n we took off our masks and went back (for a little less than a minute) to see what it was like without masks. The gases used were SO2 & formaldehyde, I believe, a least that is what they smelled like. After that

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Otis Skinner in "Mister Antonio." I am enclosing an invitation I received Tuesday. The girls at the house had appointed Miss McC. and her roommate as the invitations committee. They wanted a rhyme and "passed the buck" to me. That was Saturday afternoon. I surprised them by phoning the enclosed over Sunday morning. It's not very clever, I admit, but it satisfied the girls and should make it easy for me to have a good time at their picnic. Margaret Anglis, Cyril Maudem and Robert B. Mantell are to be here within the next month or so, ans that Norwegian actress, Madame Hammer? I believe it is, is to appear in some of Ibsen's plays next week. The Fort is very beautiful this time of year. Father was here for the week-end about ten days ago, coming up to see me made a Master Mason. He was rather surprised at our Post as it was a bit different from his idea, I think. He commented more than once on the officers. Guess he had thought we were a rough-neck bunch, not knowing that being "an officer and a gentleman" by act of congress and the order of the President" isn't as free for all as it sometimes looks. I'm expecting Mother to come up next month. Wish you could come, too. She wants me to come home instead, but I'd feel safer if I kept away from the vicinity of the University. I might get homesick if I went back to Iowa again, and I don't want to get homesick until after the War. Saw the lists of phi beta kappa elections. The first one surprised me a little. Got my first baptism of gas yesterday. went into the gas house full of a choking and lachrymetory mixture so thick I could hardly see and heard a short lecture (ten or fifteen minutes). This was with masks on. The n we took off our masks and went back (for a little less than a minute) to see what it was like without masks. The gases used were SO2 & formaldehyde, I believe, a least that is what they smelled like. After that