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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918
1918-01-30 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3
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with them. We were disappointed not to go through London, but of course we were not on a sight-seeing tour. One of the places where we stopped was Oxford. It was an odd sensation that one felt as he read the name on the platform lamps. Here we were passing through the oldest center of Anglo-Saxon culture, but on the same mission that had no doubt taken other men through Oxford centuries before -- war. And our business was too serious to permit our pausing for even a few hours to breathe the contemplative atmosphere. One of our number had been a student at Oxford. He could not give a moment to his old haunts. At midnight we arrived at ___. There we lined up and followed a guide for about a mile through fog darkened and dampened railroad
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with them. We were disappointed not to go through London, but of course we were not on a sight-seeing tour. One of the places where we stopped was Oxford. It was an odd sensation that one felt as he read the name on the platform lamps. Here we were passing through the oldest center of Anglo-Saxon culture, but on the same mission that had no doubt taken other men through Oxford centuries before -- war. And our business was too serious to permit our pausing for even a few hours to breathe the contemplative atmosphere. One of our number had been a student at Oxford. He could not give a moment to his old haunts. At midnight we arrived at ___. There we lined up and followed a guide for about a mile through fog darkened and dampened railroad
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