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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-11 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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searching looks over his glasses and ejaculated through his nose some enthusiastic comments. We had a good time. After all the Britisher was an interesting fellow, not 'arf bad as a traveling companion. I've just started him back to Lunnon, where he's going to write a lot of articles on what he saw. An interesting thing happened this afternoon. Before I sailed from --- last January I spent an interesting evening with Howard Beye who was instructor in surgery at the University until last December. I met him quite by accident in the city there when I was preparing to leave. As we parted it was with the conventional, "See you in France," Today it came true. I was at the commissary when in walked Beye. Exclamations of surprise and pleasure! A bit later he came to my office and we had a chat, He's just over. Odd, isn't it, he should come straight to the town where I am? He had seen Norris - the red-haired - as he ([Norris) was leaving for Copenhagen in the consular service. How war do change things! I took W. P. Ellis, a special writer up to a certain headquarters yesterday afternoon. He was obsessed with the damnfool idea that he wanted to go up in a listening-post and see if he could get a thrill. We encountered an officer at headquarters who very tactfully told the ge'man that we're not running a sideshow for visitors but
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searching looks over his glasses and ejaculated through his nose some enthusiastic comments. We had a good time. After all the Britisher was an interesting fellow, not 'arf bad as a traveling companion. I've just started him back to Lunnon, where he's going to write a lot of articles on what he saw. An interesting thing happened this afternoon. Before I sailed from --- last January I spent an interesting evening with Howard Beye who was instructor in surgery at the University until last December. I met him quite by accident in the city there when I was preparing to leave. As we parted it was with the conventional, "See you in France," Today it came true. I was at the commissary when in walked Beye. Exclamations of surprise and pleasure! A bit later he came to my office and we had a chat, He's just over. Odd, isn't it, he should come straight to the town where I am? He had seen Norris - the red-haired - as he ([Norris) was leaving for Copenhagen in the consular service. How war do change things! I took W. P. Ellis, a special writer up to a certain headquarters yesterday afternoon. He was obsessed with the damnfool idea that he wanted to go up in a listening-post and see if he could get a thrill. We encountered an officer at headquarters who very tactfully told the ge'man that we're not running a sideshow for visitors but
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