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

1917-07-16 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel Williams Page 6

of wheat, and an orange or some other fruit. We have eggs or meat for every meal, and coffee or tea almost always. Occasionally there is milk instead of coffee. Last week we had ice cream three or four times and pie as often. The meat is usually beef, roast or steak, but we have had chicken two or three times. Pickled pigs' feet and sausage appear occasionally, and we have "shark" (codfish) on Fridays. We have butter every meal. Altogether we are very well fed, and at the same time each company has a surplus in the mess fund as the allowance is seventy five cents a day. We spend it all on food and cooks and don't bother with napkins or table clothes. Each table seats a squad and a half (twelve men) and there are fourteen tables. The cooks have several helpers who wait upon us so that all the students have to do with the food is to eat it. Tomorrow, however, we go for an overnight maneuvre and each man will have to cook his own supper and breakfast. I imagine we'll have a hungry bunch Wednesday noon.
One of the fellows who is mathematically inclined reports that there remain 26½ days of instruction. Then will begin to work.
Sincerely yours
Bob B.

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of wheat, and an orange or some other fruit. We have eggs or meat for every meal, and coffee or tea almost always. Occasionally there is milk instead of coffee. Last week we had ice cream three or four times and pie as often. The meat is usually beef, roast or steak, but we have had chicken two or three times. Pickled pigs' feet and sausage appear occasionally, and we have "shark" (codfish) on Fridays. We have butter every meal. Altogether we are very well fed, and at the same time each company has a surplus in the mess fund as the allowance is seventy five cents a day. We spend it all on food and cooks and don't bother with napkins or table clothes. Each table seats a squad and a half (twelve men) and there are fourteen tables. The cooks have several helpers who wait upon us so that all the students have to do with the food is to eat it. Tomorrow, however, we go for an overnight maneuvre and each man will have to cook his own supper and breakfast. I imagine we'll have a hungry bunch Wednesday noon. One of the fellows who is mathematically inclined reports that there remain 26½ days of instruction. Then will begin to work. Sincerely yours Bob B.