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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918

1918-02-20 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 4

the purr of a motor, and looking up we'd see a plane winging off toward the front. Not difficult to believe that war is going on over here - except that we knew it was practice we were seeing, not the real thing. Peasant carts, hitched to tandem teams, rolled calmly along the roads - and our picture looked nothing like the waste land the front is described to be. 
One of my messmates got three letters from America today. They had been mailed about January 10. After another week I ought to get some mail, according to that speed. The one letter that has reached me established a record. I haven't found anyone who has received one in shorter time. I could kick myself and the officer whose advice I took for ever changing the address I first gave you. On it letters should come right through while on the "2nd Lt., A.G.D., N.A., Unassigned," that I used for a time they will have to go to Paris or somewhere and wait until an overworked lot of clerks can put a definite address on them.

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the purr of a motor, and looking up we'd see a plane winging off toward the front. Not difficult to believe that war is going on over here - except that we knew it was practice we were seeing, not the real thing. Peasant carts, hitched to tandem teams, rolled calmly along the roads - and our picture looked nothing like the waste land the front is described to be. One of my messmates got three letters from America today. They had been mailed about January 10. After another week I ought to get some mail, according to that speed. The one letter that has reached me established a record. I haven't found anyone who has received one in shorter time. I could kick myself and the officer whose advice I took for ever changing the address I first gave you. On it letters should come right through while on the "2nd Lt., A.G.D., N.A., Unassigned," that I used for a time they will have to go to Paris or somewhere and wait until an overworked lot of clerks can put a definite address on them.