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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918
1918-01-16 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 8
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purposes we'll be gone, however, because we shall not be allowed to leave the ship or communicate in any way with shore after we go up the gang planks. Arrangements for our comfort and safety look altogether agreeable. I suppose I mustn't tell even my wife the route we are to pursue, and I shall not, but I might hint that it will take us by way of the place where the man who used to call you "ma cherie" hails from. No notion of course when we shall arrive. I'll cable from the first spot I can get a message accepted. Most of today I've been fooling around army supply stores and travelling in the subway trying to get equipped. I got my proofs at Underwood and Underwoods, decided I wasn't well satisfied with any of them, and had another sitting. I'll get the new proofs tomorrow and decide on one. Of course, one can't be too exacting when he's using his final moments before leaving to get something done that should have been done long before. Tell mother that if I don't find time to write her a special letter before I leave I shall make up to her in a real communication from over yonder. She knows that I love her most enthusiastically. I haven't had a letter from you since I left Washington. I fear something is wrong with the forwarding of my mail from the war college. However, something addressed direct to 149-40th should reach me by tomorrow. It is getting late, and I'm growing
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purposes we'll be gone, however, because we shall not be allowed to leave the ship or communicate in any way with shore after we go up the gang planks. Arrangements for our comfort and safety look altogether agreeable. I suppose I mustn't tell even my wife the route we are to pursue, and I shall not, but I might hint that it will take us by way of the place where the man who used to call you "ma cherie" hails from. No notion of course when we shall arrive. I'll cable from the first spot I can get a message accepted. Most of today I've been fooling around army supply stores and travelling in the subway trying to get equipped. I got my proofs at Underwood and Underwoods, decided I wasn't well satisfied with any of them, and had another sitting. I'll get the new proofs tomorrow and decide on one. Of course, one can't be too exacting when he's using his final moments before leaving to get something done that should have been done long before. Tell mother that if I don't find time to write her a special letter before I leave I shall make up to her in a real communication from over yonder. She knows that I love her most enthusiastically. I haven't had a letter from you since I left Washington. I fear something is wrong with the forwarding of my mail from the war college. However, something addressed direct to 149-40th should reach me by tomorrow. It is getting late, and I'm growing
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