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Conger Reynolds correspondence, 1917
1917-05-20 Conger Reynolds to Emily Reynolds Page 3
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3 not only for ourselves but for others. This is commencement week. Tonight Rev Goff preaches the Baccalaureate sermon and there is a "Senior Play," "Professor Pepp" which which I believe is all they are going to have. Clark Purge and wife were in town lately. They look like just a pair of children. Fern Moore Repass came to see me yesterday afternoon. Just the same affectionate child that she is. She seems to love me so! Says I came next to her mother. She came to be with her as she has been sick for some weeks, And she is much worried about her. We had a letter from Martha yesterday they are well and busy. They want Malin to have a place to work on a farm down here, so father is making inquiry just light work and chores. He could get office work but Ernest don't want him to have that and of course we don't either. He ought to do manual labor, to develope. I heard the first frog croak last night sweetest music ever. These days are wonderful in their beauty. Sometimes I walk "far afield" (Sam Palmers) to drink in the beauty of the far away groves with the soft-blue haze hanging over them. A voiceless message from God. It brings peace and yet, intensifies loneliness. There is to me such mystery about such scenes. I just reveled in in the beauty of it until a Jersey cow beyond the wire fence shook her head at me in
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3 not only for ourselves but for others. This is commencement week. Tonight Rev Goff preaches the Baccalaureate sermon and there is a "Senior Play," "Professor Pepp" which which I believe is all they are going to have. Clark Purge and wife were in town lately. They look like just a pair of children. Fern Moore Repass came to see me yesterday afternoon. Just the same affectionate child that she is. She seems to love me so! Says I came next to her mother. She came to be with her as she has been sick for some weeks, And she is much worried about her. We had a letter from Martha yesterday they are well and busy. They want Malin to have a place to work on a farm down here, so father is making inquiry just light work and chores. He could get office work but Ernest don't want him to have that and of course we don't either. He ought to do manual labor, to develope. I heard the first frog croak last night sweetest music ever. These days are wonderful in their beauty. Sometimes I walk "far afield" (Sam Palmers) to drink in the beauty of the far away groves with the soft-blue haze hanging over them. A voiceless message from God. It brings peace and yet, intensifies loneliness. There is to me such mystery about such scenes. I just reveled in in the beauty of it until a Jersey cow beyond the wire fence shook her head at me in
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