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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Karl S. Hoffman, 1919

1919-08-14 Bob Browning to Karl Hoffman Page 1

Fort Benning,
Columbus, Ga., 8/14/19.

Dear Karl,
Enough time seems to have elapsed now for me to write without breaking our correspondence record. As a letter writer I rank about three files below the foot of the list.
This school detail, though, is enough to put a crimp in anybody's correspondence. Six months is too long for me to maintain my enthusiasm at the boiling point, and although the stuff we're getting is good and I'm able to lap it up as fast as the staff can pass it out, it must be admitted that I'd enjoy a little more liberty. The idea of a shavetail assistant instructor, less than a year from the Point, slipping around with a notebook to see if he can catch anybody reading the Saturday Evening Post during the prescribed study period (7:00-9:00 p.m.), rather gets on my nerves.
I find it hard to write home, even, for there's nothing to write about except the school and as I don't like to be all the time knocking it's hard to make up much of a letter. After I've said I qualified as Machine Gun Sharpshooter or Expert Machine

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Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga., 8/14/19. Dear Karl, Enough time seems to have elapsed now for me to write without breaking our correspondence record. As a letter writer I rank about three files below the foot of the list. This school detail, though, is enough to put a crimp in anybody's correspondence. Six months is too long for me to maintain my enthusiasm at the boiling point, and although the stuff we're getting is good and I'm able to lap it up as fast as the staff can pass it out, it must be admitted that I'd enjoy a little more liberty. The idea of a shavetail assistant instructor, less than a year from the Point, slipping around with a notebook to see if he can catch anybody reading the Saturday Evening Post during the prescribed study period (7:00-9:00 p.m.), rather gets on my nerves. I find it hard to write home, even, for there's nothing to write about except the school and as I don't like to be all the time knocking it's hard to make up much of a letter. After I've said I qualified as Machine Gun Sharpshooter or Expert Machine