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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, October 1917

1917-10-02 Robert M. Browning to Mavel C. Williams Page 1

October 2 [1917]
Dear Miss Williams - 
Your letter just received and to avoid mistakes and shorten the interval between letter I'll fly at a reply.
It seems awfully good somehow to know that you [[underlined]] saw [[/underlined]] Louis and [[underlined]] heard [[/underlined]] him talk. It seems so long since I've seen him it feels almost like never, but he's a man who holds an exceeding high place in my regard. He's like a brother and a mother at the sametime. Knowing him has meant more to me than I can say. Did he talk about his work in Europe? Howard told me about a meeting of club women addressed by Louis and Wm. H. Taft, During Louis's speech - straight from the prison camps - at last one woman fainted and Taft had to carry her out. Perhaps  he did not do "more with the subject than he did" because of his dislike of anything theatrical. If he wasn't talking about

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October 2 [1917] Dear Miss Williams - Your letter just received and to avoid mistakes and shorten the interval between letter I'll fly at a reply. It seems awfully good somehow to know that you [[underlined]] saw [[/underlined]] Louis and [[underlined]] heard [[/underlined]] him talk. It seems so long since I've seen him it feels almost like never, but he's a man who holds an exceeding high place in my regard. He's like a brother and a mother at the sametime. Knowing him has meant more to me than I can say. Did he talk about his work in Europe? Howard told me about a meeting of club women addressed by Louis and Wm. H. Taft, During Louis's speech - straight from the prison camps - at last one woman fainted and Taft had to carry her out. Perhaps he did not do "more with the subject than he did" because of his dislike of anything theatrical. If he wasn't talking about