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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-18 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 8
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I'll bank on their being good stuff even if your friend who wrote the Ford song approves them. No, lan' sakes no, I don't object to your publishing them. I think you're wise not to put your real name on them simply on the general theory that it is always best for future famous authors and composers to make their early steps under a pseudonym. Then if time proves the worth of their work fame will find them out; while if the beginnings do not measure up to later work the latter will not be handicapped by them. However, I wouldn't object if you wanted to use your real name. The songs are yours and so is your name. I don't see where your hubby has any say-so about it. I am honored and delighted, nevertheless, at being asked about it and so made to feel that I'm somewhere in the scene. But it's your show. I wish you real success; I'll be as happy as you if the songs do go - become popular - and you get fame and fortune out of them. Did you say you were going swimming? In March? And "before the water gets too warm." Gawd help us - what a Paradise Missouri must be. Reflecting on this and on the fact that my right foot is nearly frozen at this moment I think I'll give up and go to bed before I say something violent in comparison of your luck.
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I'll bank on their being good stuff even if your friend who wrote the Ford song approves them. No, lan' sakes no, I don't object to your publishing them. I think you're wise not to put your real name on them simply on the general theory that it is always best for future famous authors and composers to make their early steps under a pseudonym. Then if time proves the worth of their work fame will find them out; while if the beginnings do not measure up to later work the latter will not be handicapped by them. However, I wouldn't object if you wanted to use your real name. The songs are yours and so is your name. I don't see where your hubby has any say-so about it. I am honored and delighted, nevertheless, at being asked about it and so made to feel that I'm somewhere in the scene. But it's your show. I wish you real success; I'll be as happy as you if the songs do go - become popular - and you get fame and fortune out of them. Did you say you were going swimming? In March? And "before the water gets too warm." Gawd help us - what a Paradise Missouri must be. Reflecting on this and on the fact that my right foot is nearly frozen at this moment I think I'll give up and go to bed before I say something violent in comparison of your luck.
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