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Conger Reynolds correspondence, October 1918
1918-10-10 Emily Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2
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There is such a lot of influenza in C.R. The schools are closed, and there have been quite a number of deaths. I suspect its some more German work, Lillian wrote us that there had been as many as ninty-six deaths in the St. Louis hospital in one day all soldiers. I hope you boys "over there" escape it. Has the fruit cake reached you yet I wonder, and will it be fit to eat when it does? Daphne is sitting up resting her bed, and is trying to boss me about the way I write, would you take it? And another thing, yesterday a.m. she got up and walked to town in spite of all I said, and when Ernest came last night and gave her a scolding for it she coaxed him to tell me she could get up and dress today, but it didn't work. However I let her get up a while ago, and am airing the bed. And I believe she is getting better. I just baked an angel food and she has eaten half of it. So you are
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There is such a lot of influenza in C.R. The schools are closed, and there have been quite a number of deaths. I suspect its some more German work, Lillian wrote us that there had been as many as ninty-six deaths in the St. Louis hospital in one day all soldiers. I hope you boys "over there" escape it. Has the fruit cake reached you yet I wonder, and will it be fit to eat when it does? Daphne is sitting up resting her bed, and is trying to boss me about the way I write, would you take it? And another thing, yesterday a.m. she got up and walked to town in spite of all I said, and when Ernest came last night and gave her a scolding for it she coaxed him to tell me she could get up and dress today, but it didn't work. However I let her get up a while ago, and am airing the bed. And I believe she is getting better. I just baked an angel food and she has eaten half of it. So you are
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