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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, August-December, 1919

1919-10-17 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 2

This President Grant is one of the German boats we took at the beginning of the war. It's big, as you might guess from the fact that the whole brigade, Infantry, M. G. Battalion Ambulance companies and all, are going in it. The Imperator and Leviathan are docked on either side of us so we don't get the full effect of our size, but we are expecting a comfortable voyage. It will probably take at least twelve days the way we are loaded down. nobody knows where we are to land, as we go our under sealed orders. Lots of guesses are made and most people think we are bound for Silesia,via Brest but we don't know.
The tug just whistled & I'll over out to see if we are really about to start. Excuse scribble on account of haste and weariness. Sincerely, Bob
First Lt. 50th Inf.
Prov. Inf. Brig.
A.E.F.

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This President Grant is one of the German boats we took at the beginning of the war. It's big, as you might guess from the fact that the whole brigade, Infantry, M. G. Battalion Ambulance companies and all, are going in it. The Imperator and Leviathan are docked on either side of us so we don't get the full effect of our size, but we are expecting a comfortable voyage. It will probably take at least twelve days the way we are loaded down. nobody knows where we are to land, as we go our under sealed orders. Lots of guesses are made and most people think we are bound for Silesia,via Brest but we don't know. The tug just whistled & I'll over out to see if we are really about to start. Excuse scribble on account of haste and weariness. Sincerely, Bob First Lt. 50th Inf. Prov. Inf. Brig. A.E.F.