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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918

1918-01-19 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5

or sweetheart in America more Spartan like than you. You are brave and strong and as true to your country as to me. You would love me less if I did not respond willingly to the opportunity to serve where my superiors believe I am most needed. We'll both bear our sacrifice without murmur, whatever it is, and without fear. For some day our happiness will come in realization that we have done our share and are entitled to the happiness that life together in a regenerated world will mean. It will not be long, sweetheart, not long if we keep our hearts on the future, the beautiful years to come. 
I have had Brentano's send for a copy of "The Yellow Jacket" to be mailed to you. You will find it delightfully imaginative and child-like at the same time that it is rich and mature in the honeyed nature of its language and thought. Take it in small doses, and you will delight in its mystery and its incense. Too much of it at once might affect you as drinking honey and breathing incense constantly would. 
I have arranged about getting pictures. We'll have them taken either this afternoon or tomorrow. If I should have to leave before they are finished, I'll arrange to have them mailed to you.

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or sweetheart in America more Spartan like than you. You are brave and strong and as true to your country as to me. You would love me less if I did not respond willingly to the opportunity to serve where my superiors believe I am most needed. We'll both bear our sacrifice without murmur, whatever it is, and without fear. For some day our happiness will come in realization that we have done our share and are entitled to the happiness that life together in a regenerated world will mean. It will not be long, sweetheart, not long if we keep our hearts on the future, the beautiful years to come. I have had Brentano's send for a copy of "The Yellow Jacket" to be mailed to you. You will find it delightfully imaginative and child-like at the same time that it is rich and mature in the honeyed nature of its language and thought. Take it in small doses, and you will delight in its mystery and its incense. Too much of it at once might affect you as drinking honey and breathing incense constantly would. I have arranged about getting pictures. We'll have them taken either this afternoon or tomorrow. If I should have to leave before they are finished, I'll arrange to have them mailed to you.