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

1917-09-24 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel C. Williams Page 4

Your pessimism doesn't sound very convincing. You admit that the first two weeks are the worst and that proves you're not thoroughly disgusted. But that string of things to lament about is long enough at that. The rainy, raw, cold weather appeals most strongly to me. I've shivered enough up here to last through an Iowa November. The rumors of southern training camps don't make me sore a bit although I have rather counted on a Sunday in Iowa City soon after pay day.
I have enough reading matter. I get the Literary Digest and a morning and evening paper, and have one volume of Kipling's poems and James' Pragmatism besides my professional books and publications. War is a fairly big little science itself now you know and I hope to have my dissertation published by the Government Printing Office sometime.

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Your pessimism doesn't sound very convincing. You admit that the first two weeks are the worst and that proves you're not thoroughly disgusted. But that string of things to lament about is long enough at that. The rainy, raw, cold weather appeals most strongly to me. I've shivered enough up here to last through an Iowa November. The rumors of southern training camps don't make me sore a bit although I have rather counted on a Sunday in Iowa City soon after pay day. I have enough reading matter. I get the Literary Digest and a morning and evening paper, and have one volume of Kipling's poems and James' Pragmatism besides my professional books and publications. War is a fairly big little science itself now you know and I hope to have my dissertation published by the Government Printing Office sometime.