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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Karl S. Hoffman, 1918

1918-02-11 Bob Browning to Karl Hoffman Page 2

English lately. There are a couple of dozen or so who can't read and write so I give them an hour a day. It's pretty hard. Only two are American born - the rest are Greeks, Poles, Lithuanians, Italians, Armenian, and Russian, mostly. Some of them can understand English about as well as I can Latin, and you know what that is.
We're having a beautiful bit of spring weather now. The air is soft and balmy and the ground is soft and slushy.
I've been stepping out a bit since Christmas, went to a couple of dances - one at Kappa house over at the U of M - and have been out to dinner several times - took a couple of pretty girls to a couple of theaters, and even had an evening at the opera - "Faust".
Am on guard now, will be relieved at eleven a.m. Pretty soon, now. The only excitement was caused by putting a girl on a city-bound [truck?], and sending a soldier to his quarters.
I hear a sound that suggests the approach of relief.
This letter is fairly short, but short ones ought to be worth a postcard, anyway.
How's everything by you?
Cheerfully yours
Bob.

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English lately. There are a couple of dozen or so who can't read and write so I give them an hour a day. It's pretty hard. Only two are American born - the rest are Greeks, Poles, Lithuanians, Italians, Armenian, and Russian, mostly. Some of them can understand English about as well as I can Latin, and you know what that is. We're having a beautiful bit of spring weather now. The air is soft and balmy and the ground is soft and slushy. I've been stepping out a bit since Christmas, went to a couple of dances - one at Kappa house over at the U of M - and have been out to dinner several times - took a couple of pretty girls to a couple of theaters, and even had an evening at the opera - "Faust". Am on guard now, will be relieved at eleven a.m. Pretty soon, now. The only excitement was caused by putting a girl on a city-bound [truck?], and sending a soldier to his quarters. I hear a sound that suggests the approach of relief. This letter is fairly short, but short ones ought to be worth a postcard, anyway. How's everything by you? Cheerfully yours Bob.