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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 2

a war subject I can understand how he might not have been able to give his whole self to it. Even as far from the war as I am it is beginning to seem like the only thing really important in the world. Home, friend [[insertion]] ship [[/insertion]], love, success, and all the things we used to prize have come to seem comparatively trivial. It is useless to think about them. We may never have anything more to do with them and they seem almost like dreams, most of the time. But if one does let memories come they are mighty painfully real, [[insertion]] sometimes [[/insertion]] all the more so for the contrast. But that doesn't mean at all that I don't want as many letters and as much information about the "outside" as I can get. Time in the army is measure by the intervals between mails.
I appreciated your details about the old school. Do you three handle all the elementary notions? I had a letter from Marie just after she started work at Buena Vista, and I've written Nestor - asking her for another letter. The S.E.P. Cover design you referred to

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a war subject I can understand how he might not have been able to give his whole self to it. Even as far from the war as I am it is beginning to seem like the only thing really important in the world. Home, friend [[insertion]] ship [[/insertion]], love, success, and all the things we used to prize have come to seem comparatively trivial. It is useless to think about them. We may never have anything more to do with them and they seem almost like dreams, most of the time. But if one does let memories come they are mighty painfully real, [[insertion]] sometimes [[/insertion]] all the more so for the contrast. But that doesn't mean at all that I don't want as many letters and as much information about the "outside" as I can get. Time in the army is measure by the intervals between mails. I appreciated your details about the old school. Do you three handle all the elementary notions? I had a letter from Marie just after she started work at Buena Vista, and I've written Nestor - asking her for another letter. The S.E.P. Cover design you referred to