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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, July-December 1918

1918-08-28 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 1

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36th Infantry Camp Devens, Mass. 8/28/18 Dear Miss Williams - Your letter came this afternoon and you can be sure I was glad to get it, and the news it contained. "I'm sending a copy of "Dere Mable" to my other friend in Iowa City and expect to get a third copy for Mediapolis the next time I go to Boston. I've enjoyed that book a lot and have lent it to a lot of the officers, some of whom took it home to their wives and then reported that their neighbors enjoyed it immensely. I wasn't quite as crazy about the sea as I had imagined I'd be. I was with a group of officers and girls but somehow it made me lonesome. It was cold and gray and rather symbolical I thought. There was such a lot of it wihout any apparent life in
 
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