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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918

1918-02-04 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2

Your pictures have not come yet but this is Sunday and they may be in the office. Tomorrow afternoon I'll go down and see, and then if they have not come I'll write to the studio as you told me to.
   I had another note from A.C. Gustafson telling me he was using the address I sent him to write to you. I'm sorry, but I gave him the first one - c/o Lieut. Col. Nolan. It was before I received final instructions, and so of course I couldn't help it. Perhaps you'll get the letter anyway, but for fear he spreads the news and gives other people the wrong address I'll send him the other. I want you to have all the mail you deserve, especially since I think "Gustafson" is writing something nice about me.
   I owe the whole Reynolds Clan letters and I'm going to get busy tomorrow night and write them. I've not been feeling "up to snuff" the past two or three days tho, so I have an excuse. My work has dragged on me. I think I know how a dog feels with a tin can tied to his tail. My work has banged along like that, and no possible escape from it. I'm good tempered again tho, and ready to lick the Kaiser. 
   The letters have been pouring in. Some I am saving and many I am not. It seems every paper in the U.S.A. got our news and printed it because nearly every letter begins "Ah seen yo' ad in the papah," or words to that effect.
   I'm wondering about Zim. You must tell me whether he is with you, and anything else you are permitted to tell. Be careful tho, dear, because I wouldn't want to lose a letter

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Your pictures have not come yet but this is Sunday and they may be in the office. Tomorrow afternoon I'll go down and see, and then if they have not come I'll write to the studio as you told me to. I had another note from A.C. Gustafson telling me he was using the address I sent him to write to you. I'm sorry, but I gave him the first one - c/o Lieut. Col. Nolan. It was before I received final instructions, and so of course I couldn't help it. Perhaps you'll get the letter anyway, but for fear he spreads the news and gives other people the wrong address I'll send him the other. I want you to have all the mail you deserve, especially since I think "Gustafson" is writing something nice about me. I owe the whole Reynolds Clan letters and I'm going to get busy tomorrow night and write them. I've not been feeling "up to snuff" the past two or three days tho, so I have an excuse. My work has dragged on me. I think I know how a dog feels with a tin can tied to his tail. My work has banged along like that, and no possible escape from it. I'm good tempered again tho, and ready to lick the Kaiser. The letters have been pouring in. Some I am saving and many I am not. It seems every paper in the U.S.A. got our news and printed it because nearly every letter begins "Ah seen yo' ad in the papah," or words to that effect. I'm wondering about Zim. You must tell me whether he is with you, and anything else you are permitted to tell. Be careful tho, dear, because I wouldn't want to lose a letter