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Conger Reynolds correspondence, 1917

1917-09-06 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Goodenough Page 2

You know I didn't kiss you good-bye -  or nothin: More proof that a thing like that sort should never be put off. 
Much as I was pained to read of your unhappiness, I liked the tears in your letter.  You impress me firmly most of the time with your your complete independence.  I know you'll froth at the reflection on woman-kind in general, but you do appear to me uncommonly intellectual, and worldly wise and self-sufficient as compared to most of the universal sisterhood as I have know it.  With difficulty, since I have have never observed the phenomenon, can I fancy your weeping.  But I rejoiced over the written evidence that you do indulge in the weakness.  It makes you all the more human.  How I wish I could have blotted the tears with my uniform - though, of course, that could never have been.  If I had been on the scene you would have been provokingly able to take

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You know I didn't kiss you good-bye - or nothin: More proof that a thing like that sort should never be put off. Much as I was pained to read of your unhappiness, I liked the tears in your letter. You impress me firmly most of the time with your your complete independence. I know you'll froth at the reflection on woman-kind in general, but you do appear to me uncommonly intellectual, and worldly wise and self-sufficient as compared to most of the universal sisterhood as I have know it. With difficulty, since I have have never observed the phenomenon, can I fancy your weeping. But I rejoiced over the written evidence that you do indulge in the weakness. It makes you all the more human. How I wish I could have blotted the tears with my uniform - though, of course, that could never have been. If I had been on the scene you would have been provokingly able to take