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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918

1918-02-03 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5

and I took a room in the quaint place I have already mentioned. The room was scrupulously clean and the beds - oh, so soft and warm after steamship bunks and "rest" camp cots and boards. We had a night of real sleep, followed by a sure-nuff French breakfast of chocolate and rolls and jam. As we paid our bill of seventy-five cents each I thought of the prices in Washington and New York and smiled inwardly.
   We reported this morning at the caserne and registered. As all lieutenants are required to sleep there we had to leave our room and move up there. Tonight therefore we must sleep again on a straw tick and field cot under two blankets in a big barn of a place that is attractive only for its historical suggestions. There since the time of Napoleon, the soldiers of France have lived.

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and I took a room in the quaint place I have already mentioned. The room was scrupulously clean and the beds - oh, so soft and warm after steamship bunks and "rest" camp cots and boards. We had a night of real sleep, followed by a sure-nuff French breakfast of chocolate and rolls and jam. As we paid our bill of seventy-five cents each I thought of the prices in Washington and New York and smiled inwardly. We reported this morning at the caserne and registered. As all lieutenants are required to sleep there we had to leave our room and move up there. Tonight therefore we must sleep again on a straw tick and field cot under two blankets in a big barn of a place that is attractive only for its historical suggestions. There since the time of Napoleon, the soldiers of France have lived.