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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Karl S. Hoffman, 1920-1924

1921-05-28 Bob Browning to Karl Hoffman Page 1

Officers Club of Mayen
Fiftieth U.S. Infantry
American Forces in Germany
28 May 1921
Dear Karl:
This letter will probably reach you about Commencement time if all goes well.  I wish I could do what I suppose you will be doing about that time.  It surely would be a wonderful evening for me if I could get me a canoe at Fitz's and paddle off in the moonlight toward the Little Dutch Hall with one of the N.N.N's.  That would be the perfect end of a perfect day.
Please write when you get time and tell me all the news that you pick up about any of the old bunch.  The last I knew of most of our old crowd they were just getting out of the Army and were looking for better jobs than they had in '17.  By this time I suppose a lot of them have found such things and have either committed matrimony or are slipping toward it.  My own opportunities or temptations are limited, although we do have one French wife and one ex-YMCA secretary in our regimental family, so that there are possibilities even here in Germany.  If the other two found these two there must be others around somewhere.
Don't tkae these remarks too seriously, though, for I am becoming more firmly settled every day in my former impression, which now amounts almost to a positive conviction that being a bachelor has a whole heap of advantages over being a second in command.  At the weekly hops it is pathetic to see husbands waiting around with their eyes full of sleepiness for their wives to make up the family's mind to call it a day.  When a bachelor has been on the range all day and has to get up before daylight next morning to go back to another day's shooting he can quit dancing and go to bed, but a married man has to wait until his wife, who has very likely had a nice little nap in the afternoon, gets good and ready to stop dancing.

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Officers Club of Mayen Fiftieth U.S. Infantry American Forces in Germany 28 May 1921 Dear Karl: This letter will probably reach you about Commencement time if all goes well. I wish I could do what I suppose you will be doing about that time. It surely would be a wonderful evening for me if I could get me a canoe at Fitz's and paddle off in the moonlight toward the Little Dutch Hall with one of the N.N.N's. That would be the perfect end of a perfect day. Please write when you get time and tell me all the news that you pick up about any of the old bunch. The last I knew of most of our old crowd they were just getting out of the Army and were looking for better jobs than they had in '17. By this time I suppose a lot of them have found such things and have either committed matrimony or are slipping toward it. My own opportunities or temptations are limited, although we do have one French wife and one ex-YMCA secretary in our regimental family, so that there are possibilities even here in Germany. If the other two found these two there must be others around somewhere. Don't tkae these remarks too seriously, though, for I am becoming more firmly settled every day in my former impression, which now amounts almost to a positive conviction that being a bachelor has a whole heap of advantages over being a second in command. At the weekly hops it is pathetic to see husbands waiting around with their eyes full of sleepiness for their wives to make up the family's mind to call it a day. When a bachelor has been on the range all day and has to get up before daylight next morning to go back to another day's shooting he can quit dancing and go to bed, but a married man has to wait until his wife, who has very likely had a nice little nap in the afternoon, gets good and ready to stop dancing.