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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, May-July 1917

1917-05-21 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel Williams Page 1

F.R.O.T.C. Co 7
Fort Snelling, Minn.
May 21, 1917
Dear Miss Williams -
Your letter was my first news of Iowa City so you may be quite sure that it was appreciated. The life here runs on a schedule that leaves little time for letter writing but after the the first week I feel that I can find a little time now and then to drop a few lines. Letters are so welcome that it pays to steal time from study or sleep to try to land an Iowa City postmark.
A dozen or so of Iowa men, including Asborne West, Tindale, Robert Beer, Carroll Martin, Grissel, Larry Raymond, and some others arrived here about ten o'clock Sunday morning, May 13. With several dozen other young men we were lined up and marched past a bunch of clerks who had our registration cards made out for us and assigned us to companies. Some of us wandered down the parade grounds half a mile or so to the barracks of Company 7. 
(Time out for Retreat
TIme has also been taken out for mess.
To continue - 
After signing up a personal history and giving the address of the person to be notified "in case of emergency" we were marched back past the headquarters building to the hospital. Here we found

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F.R.O.T.C. Co 7 Fort Snelling, Minn. May 21, 1917 Dear Miss Williams - Your letter was my first news of Iowa City so you may be quite sure that it was appreciated. The life here runs on a schedule that leaves little time for letter writing but after the the first week I feel that I can find a little time now and then to drop a few lines. Letters are so welcome that it pays to steal time from study or sleep to try to land an Iowa City postmark. A dozen or so of Iowa men, including Asborne West, Tindale, Robert Beer, Carroll Martin, Grissel, Larry Raymond, and some others arrived here about ten o'clock Sunday morning, May 13. With several dozen other young men we were lined up and marched past a bunch of clerks who had our registration cards made out for us and assigned us to companies. Some of us wandered down the parade grounds half a mile or so to the barracks of Company 7. (Time out for Retreat TIme has also been taken out for mess. To continue - After signing up a personal history and giving the address of the person to be notified "in case of emergency" we were marched back past the headquarters building to the hospital. Here we found