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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, July-December 1918

1918-07-17 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 1

Fort Snelling 
July, 17, '18
Dear Dr. Williams,- 
If you owe me a letter I forgive you for not having paid you debt and if I owe you one I'm sorry I didn't write sooner. I had my picture taken a week or so ago and am sending the proofs in tomorrow with an order for a picture for you.
I inclose a cutting from tonight's St. Paul Dispatch. I have no comment except that the "secret" seems to have been kept for nearly three days. We know where we are going, to what division, and when so that everybody is happy.
We've been busy as bees all week. The recruit outfits were united with the old companies Monday, necessitating a re-arrangement of quarters so that the second battalion is now out in cantonments again. I've been temporarily given charge of the paper work of the company in place of the second in command who normally does it. I don't like the promotion as it takes me away from my platoon making me acting "assistant company commander" without the rank.
No officers are allowed to go downtown except with special permission from their Bn. C. O., and no leaves to officers or passes or furloughs to enlisted men are to be granted for more than 24 hours.
I have all my overseas equipment that I expect to get on this side except possibly a clothing roll and some khaki handkerchiefs. This mess proposition will probably be a thorn in my flesh getting accounts closed up and everything. That's a minor matter though and I don't care so long as I'm on my way to

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Fort Snelling July, 17, '18 Dear Dr. Williams,- If you owe me a letter I forgive you for not having paid you debt and if I owe you one I'm sorry I didn't write sooner. I had my picture taken a week or so ago and am sending the proofs in tomorrow with an order for a picture for you. I inclose a cutting from tonight's St. Paul Dispatch. I have no comment except that the "secret" seems to have been kept for nearly three days. We know where we are going, to what division, and when so that everybody is happy. We've been busy as bees all week. The recruit outfits were united with the old companies Monday, necessitating a re-arrangement of quarters so that the second battalion is now out in cantonments again. I've been temporarily given charge of the paper work of the company in place of the second in command who normally does it. I don't like the promotion as it takes me away from my platoon making me acting "assistant company commander" without the rank. No officers are allowed to go downtown except with special permission from their Bn. C. O., and no leaves to officers or passes or furloughs to enlisted men are to be granted for more than 24 hours. I have all my overseas equipment that I expect to get on this side except possibly a clothing roll and some khaki handkerchiefs. This mess proposition will probably be a thorn in my flesh getting accounts closed up and everything. That's a minor matter though and I don't care so long as I'm on my way to