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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, 1921-1922

1922-10-09 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 1

Shoreham Hotel
H Street Northwest at Fifteenth
Washington October 9th
Dear Miss Williams -
Last Thursday I left Fort Schuyler about 2 P.M. on my way to Iowa via Washington and Randolph-Macon. It took me till eight thirty Friday morning to reach Washington and there I had to send my high-powered roadster to the hospital. I went on to Lynchburg by rail Friday night and spent Saturday and Sunday very profitably enjoying the beauties of the school. At vespers Sunday evening the Parson told the girls to pray "O, God make me the kind of man Thou wouldst like." Some of the girls better pray for help in landing him after he's made but most of 'em need only worry about the supply holding out. There are a lot of mighty attractive looking girls there. Four professors and I kept vespers from being a hen party, but only two shared dinner with me and a couple of hundred girls. I thought O was going to be fussed but I really enjoyed it all. Not so bad as my first visit to Currier.
Came back to Washington this morning and found that the old tattler needed a couple of dozen monkey glands or something so I've resigned myself to fate and am all set to study Insurance for a week waiting for my car and the Iowa Yale game. I'm leaving on the midnight train for New York where I'll have my headquarters at the Pennsylvania while studying insurance. The Hotel Pennsylvania makes a good address and I don't think it will cost anything to get my mail there - maybe a cigar or two to the clerk after the third or fourth day.
I explained last summer why I went to Randolph-Macon Friday, didn't I? Same reason I drove down from Dix one Saturday afternoon to Edgewood Arsenal and stayed so late Sunday evening that I had to

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Shoreham Hotel H Street Northwest at Fifteenth Washington October 9th Dear Miss Williams - Last Thursday I left Fort Schuyler about 2 P.M. on my way to Iowa via Washington and Randolph-Macon. It took me till eight thirty Friday morning to reach Washington and there I had to send my high-powered roadster to the hospital. I went on to Lynchburg by rail Friday night and spent Saturday and Sunday very profitably enjoying the beauties of the school. At vespers Sunday evening the Parson told the girls to pray "O, God make me the kind of man Thou wouldst like." Some of the girls better pray for help in landing him after he's made but most of 'em need only worry about the supply holding out. There are a lot of mighty attractive looking girls there. Four professors and I kept vespers from being a hen party, but only two shared dinner with me and a couple of hundred girls. I thought O was going to be fussed but I really enjoyed it all. Not so bad as my first visit to Currier. Came back to Washington this morning and found that the old tattler needed a couple of dozen monkey glands or something so I've resigned myself to fate and am all set to study Insurance for a week waiting for my car and the Iowa Yale game. I'm leaving on the midnight train for New York where I'll have my headquarters at the Pennsylvania while studying insurance. The Hotel Pennsylvania makes a good address and I don't think it will cost anything to get my mail there - maybe a cigar or two to the clerk after the third or fourth day. I explained last summer why I went to Randolph-Macon Friday, didn't I? Same reason I drove down from Dix one Saturday afternoon to Edgewood Arsenal and stayed so late Sunday evening that I had to