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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, August-September 1917

1917-08-07 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel C. Williams Page 3

One of the papers stated that we of the Regulars would get our commissions Saturday but we don't even know that to be officially decided upon. I'll let you know at once. 
It is good to know that you are glad with me in this little success and it makes me try harder not to fall down. I simply must  not with friends like mine watching. 
Possibly my hesitation in answering your question about future information was due to my surprise at your use of the plural. I had always thought of my letters as being just to you and knew that you would make allowances for hasty English and wild statements, so was a bit taken aback when I learned of the departmental interest in my writings. 
Are you sure my unexpurgated letters are fit for a mixed group of auditors? I must depend upon you to keep the secrets I can't keep by myself. 
"Real success" in my great undertaking is not to be expected immediately, in view of the stirring and soul-tearing events of the last two years and three months. However, I feel confident that if I come home whole I'll be able to bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion. I admit that that's an exceedingly audacious thing to say, and success seems very far away now. I am trusting to my working knowledge of psychology in disregarding conscious conscientious statements and in trusting to a few, very few, unconscious acts and limits. May the future prove me right!
Sincerely - Bob

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One of the papers stated that we of the Regulars would get our commissions Saturday but we don't even know that to be officially decided upon. I'll let you know at once. It is good to know that you are glad with me in this little success and it makes me try harder not to fall down. I simply must not with friends like mine watching. Possibly my hesitation in answering your question about future information was due to my surprise at your use of the plural. I had always thought of my letters as being just to you and knew that you would make allowances for hasty English and wild statements, so was a bit taken aback when I learned of the departmental interest in my writings. Are you sure my unexpurgated letters are fit for a mixed group of auditors? I must depend upon you to keep the secrets I can't keep by myself. "Real success" in my great undertaking is not to be expected immediately, in view of the stirring and soul-tearing events of the last two years and three months. However, I feel confident that if I come home whole I'll be able to bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion. I admit that that's an exceedingly audacious thing to say, and success seems very far away now. I am trusting to my working knowledge of psychology in disregarding conscious conscientious statements and in trusting to a few, very few, unconscious acts and limits. May the future prove me right! Sincerely - Bob