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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, January-March 1918

1918-02-15 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 1

Feb. 15, 1918
Dear Miss Williams,
Your binoculars arrived this afternoon and I expect to arrive in Iowa City Sunday morning to spend the day with friends, getting in about 7:45 am and leaving on the Interurban (?) car that reaches Cedar Rapids just before 11:10 pm.
I shall call you, of course, and hope to see you to tell you in person if I can how much I value your loan. The glasses will be helpful I am sure, and I hope that with this aid I may be able to do some real damage to the Kaiser's plans.
Of course, I agree with you. I, too, want peace, but a just peace, not just peace. If it can be won by politicians ( I suppose I should say statesmen) why that is a matter for rejoicing but if it can't be gained in that way then I want to have the privilege of dying in the path rather than making way for the Blonde Beast. And if a million of us are allowed to buy the salvation of the world with our blood is not ours a great privilege?

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Feb. 15, 1918 Dear Miss Williams, Your binoculars arrived this afternoon and I expect to arrive in Iowa City Sunday morning to spend the day with friends, getting in about 7:45 am and leaving on the Interurban (?) car that reaches Cedar Rapids just before 11:10 pm. I shall call you, of course, and hope to see you to tell you in person if I can how much I value your loan. The glasses will be helpful I am sure, and I hope that with this aid I may be able to do some real damage to the Kaiser's plans. Of course, I agree with you. I, too, want peace, but a just peace, not just peace. If it can be won by politicians ( I suppose I should say statesmen) why that is a matter for rejoicing but if it can't be gained in that way then I want to have the privilege of dying in the path rather than making way for the Blonde Beast. And if a million of us are allowed to buy the salvation of the world with our blood is not ours a great privilege?