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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-22 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3
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how precious is immediate association and sets the will to a determination never to allow opportunities for happiness to be wasted. I swear, honey, when I get back to you I'm going to hang around and play with you every moment I can. I have knocked about enough that I know how to adjust myself to conditions even though they don't suit me. Some of the fellows in the intelligence crowd are not so fortunate. They've been about all right, but in the usual tourist fashion, and they've never had any real "roughing it." I am kept constantly amused at the things they do to try to make life more bearable and at the way they fuss over hardships. For instance, there is J.L.S. Before the war he was a lawyer. He's a millionaire's son, so his practice didn't worry him much. He is simply appalled at the things he has to put up with here. The other day he decided he was going to have
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how precious is immediate association and sets the will to a determination never to allow opportunities for happiness to be wasted. I swear, honey, when I get back to you I'm going to hang around and play with you every moment I can. I have knocked about enough that I know how to adjust myself to conditions even though they don't suit me. Some of the fellows in the intelligence crowd are not so fortunate. They've been about all right, but in the usual tourist fashion, and they've never had any real "roughing it." I am kept constantly amused at the things they do to try to make life more bearable and at the way they fuss over hardships. For instance, there is J.L.S. Before the war he was a lawyer. He's a millionaire's son, so his practice didn't worry him much. He is simply appalled at the things he has to put up with here. The other day he decided he was going to have
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