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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Karl S. Hoffman, 1919

1919-04-06 Bob Browning to Karl Hoffman Page 1

April 6, 1919

Dear Karl,
Your good letter received a most hearty welcome a few days ago and I am taking the first opportunity to tell you to do it again. My incoming mail has suffered a great decline in volume recently, since I came down here to Georgia, and I have so little time for writing letters that I see little chance of encouraging my few correspondents to perk up.
I am glad that you find insurance going so well now, and I hope that it keeps up and increases your prosperity at an ever growing rate.
That was surprising news about Bob Shaw. Do you know where any of the rest are now? Chase Hoodley, MD., is asst. bayonet instructor here. 
You remember the retired Sargt. Major in Captain Browning's offices at Iowa, of course, Sargt. [Rohming?]. I met him the first day I was here, he's Captain and Personal Adjutant of the Camp.
Lt. Col. Brookhardt and Capt. [Preussner?] of Iowa are here as instructors in the course in Marksmanship, a course which gets half our time for six weeks, which is more than any other one thing at camp is granted.
Our work is pretty stiff. Especially was the afternoon work this last week strenuous, for we have been devoting our time from one o'clock until nine to bayonet fighting and jiu-jitsu. That's man killing work when you take a class of regular army officers and send 'em through at the rate we go. All of us, or at least almost all of us, have been teaching the stuff, so we know how it's done, but we weren't in physical condition to do it at top speed for

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April 6, 1919 Dear Karl, Your good letter received a most hearty welcome a few days ago and I am taking the first opportunity to tell you to do it again. My incoming mail has suffered a great decline in volume recently, since I came down here to Georgia, and I have so little time for writing letters that I see little chance of encouraging my few correspondents to perk up. I am glad that you find insurance going so well now, and I hope that it keeps up and increases your prosperity at an ever growing rate. That was surprising news about Bob Shaw. Do you know where any of the rest are now? Chase Hoodley, MD., is asst. bayonet instructor here. You remember the retired Sargt. Major in Captain Browning's offices at Iowa, of course, Sargt. [Rohming?]. I met him the first day I was here, he's Captain and Personal Adjutant of the Camp. Lt. Col. Brookhardt and Capt. [Preussner?] of Iowa are here as instructors in the course in Marksmanship, a course which gets half our time for six weeks, which is more than any other one thing at camp is granted. Our work is pretty stiff. Especially was the afternoon work this last week strenuous, for we have been devoting our time from one o'clock until nine to bayonet fighting and jiu-jitsu. That's man killing work when you take a class of regular army officers and send 'em through at the rate we go. All of us, or at least almost all of us, have been teaching the stuff, so we know how it's done, but we weren't in physical condition to do it at top speed for