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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918

1918-01-10 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

College today; so I wrote the glad tidings to President Jessup of the University and my "foster mother," Mary Dorr, Des Moines, and my old pal, Jack Newman - and several others whom I've been dying to tell but didn't dare for fear they would publish 'em. 
Your second letter reached me this morning, too. I had just finished convincing myself that you loved me even if you did sit at the table with Corporal King when the telegram arrived. I certainly welcomed it with enthusiasm. 
Everything is now as lovely as it well could be with you a thousand miles away. We'll get the formal announcements made and then settle down to wait in calmness for the time when we can be together again. How about the pictures? By the way, they need not be mounted. Plain black and white prints are all we need. I wrote to Bob Wright, my old city ed., today and told him I was going to send him the best decoration for a page of his Sunday paper that he had ever had. 
Jim has been over tonight. He repeated to me the entire story of one of H. G. Wells' novels. Don't you pity me? He did pretty well, though - got it all off his chest inside an hour.

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College today; so I wrote the glad tidings to President Jessup of the University and my "foster mother," Mary Dorr, Des Moines, and my old pal, Jack Newman - and several others whom I've been dying to tell but didn't dare for fear they would publish 'em. Your second letter reached me this morning, too. I had just finished convincing myself that you loved me even if you did sit at the table with Corporal King when the telegram arrived. I certainly welcomed it with enthusiasm. Everything is now as lovely as it well could be with you a thousand miles away. We'll get the formal announcements made and then settle down to wait in calmness for the time when we can be together again. How about the pictures? By the way, they need not be mounted. Plain black and white prints are all we need. I wrote to Bob Wright, my old city ed., today and told him I was going to send him the best decoration for a page of his Sunday paper that he had ever had. Jim has been over tonight. He repeated to me the entire story of one of H. G. Wells' novels. Don't you pity me? He did pretty well, though - got it all off his chest inside an hour.