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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 3

Macetta and I missed connections at the Falls as my telegram telling her I was on the way was mailed to her at Erie and received about the time I passed Schenectady. I thought she was on her way to Detroit and she didn't know where I was. She wired home for my address & Dad wired her at the "St. George" instead of "Prince George" hotel so that when we located each other the wedding day had been set. Macetta changed from morning to afternoon & wired me to come down. I got her message after I had sent congratulations on the assumption that she was married. It was 11:30 a.m. then (when I came in from bayonet school). At 11:40 I had seen the Regimental Adjutant, called on the Colonel in his bedroom, gone to Division Hq. and talked the Division Adjutant into making an exception to an order of the G.G. that no leaves be granted to officers int he division schools. At 12:10 I was in an auto & on my way to New York. The driver stood on the accelerator and got me into Worcester in time for the New York express. Zim met me at the station with a taxi and I gave the bride away. 
I quite approve of this wedding. In fact my ideas about service weddings have been considerably modified since I talked with you about them. Macetta and Zim are so happy I don't like to think about it. I wouldn't promise not to follow their example if the right girl should come along and insist.
Hope Hansen's commission arrives soon. Capt. Hunter (Yale) is in charge of the tests here. The men got theirs last week, and considerable surprise was shown. Some good sergeants got very low grades - probably due to lack of sympathy with the whole idea. The officer's tests are due tomorrow. I don't know that we'll get our grades. If we do maybe I'll send mine on.
Mother forwarded the sox. Please thank Mrs. Bunch for me. I am vastly pleased. I am taking an intensive course in bayonet training (British instructors) and physical drill but since I am not mess officer here and students from our regiment are excused from reveille and company duty while the division schools are in session I find myself felling more like a man of leisure than I've felt for a long time. 
 Gwendolyn McClain is coming East in September and has expressed the hope that she may be at Devers for a couple of minutes. Cheerfully, Bob

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Macetta and I missed connections at the Falls as my telegram telling her I was on the way was mailed to her at Erie and received about the time I passed Schenectady. I thought she was on her way to Detroit and she didn't know where I was. She wired home for my address & Dad wired her at the "St. George" instead of "Prince George" hotel so that when we located each other the wedding day had been set. Macetta changed from morning to afternoon & wired me to come down. I got her message after I had sent congratulations on the assumption that she was married. It was 11:30 a.m. then (when I came in from bayonet school). At 11:40 I had seen the Regimental Adjutant, called on the Colonel in his bedroom, gone to Division Hq. and talked the Division Adjutant into making an exception to an order of the G.G. that no leaves be granted to officers int he division schools. At 12:10 I was in an auto & on my way to New York. The driver stood on the accelerator and got me into Worcester in time for the New York express. Zim met me at the station with a taxi and I gave the bride away. I quite approve of this wedding. In fact my ideas about service weddings have been considerably modified since I talked with you about them. Macetta and Zim are so happy I don't like to think about it. I wouldn't promise not to follow their example if the right girl should come along and insist. Hope Hansen's commission arrives soon. Capt. Hunter (Yale) is in charge of the tests here. The men got theirs last week, and considerable surprise was shown. Some good sergeants got very low grades - probably due to lack of sympathy with the whole idea. The officer's tests are due tomorrow. I don't know that we'll get our grades. If we do maybe I'll send mine on. Mother forwarded the sox. Please thank Mrs. Bunch for me. I am vastly pleased. I am taking an intensive course in bayonet training (British instructors) and physical drill but since I am not mess officer here and students from our regiment are excused from reveille and company duty while the division schools are in session I find myself felling more like a man of leisure than I've felt for a long time. Gwendolyn McClain is coming East in September and has expressed the hope that she may be at Devers for a couple of minutes. Cheerfully, Bob