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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-23 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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there is nothing left for me to write about except that I'm in love with my wife. She might be described as a rather handsome person - owing to her good looks - who manipulates a piano and writes love letters to her husband with surpassing artistry. When last heard from she was taking part in the strike in Kansas City - which was unusual in at least two respects since according to all reports she is by custom a hard working woman and an inhabitant of Nevada - a town in Missouri, U.S.A., not the state. She would be in France, Europe, if she were a man and probably would anyway if she didn't have a mean husband and a far-seeing country that will not allow soldiers wives to take part in the fight. You're right - that's about enough of that kind of stuff. But since you shake the fact about Mrs. Roosevelt under my nose, I'll have to defend the situation by explaining that she arrived before General Order - (whatever the number is) was passed. I don't see why I didn't send you over last summer so you'd be here when I came. Do you? But anyway, Captain Adams 'lows this is no place for a woman. He has just cabled his wife to lay off a Red Cross job through which she was planning to get over. He doesn't believe in the superiority of the male of the species either. Perhaps he's right, but that doesn't keep me from
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there is nothing left for me to write about except that I'm in love with my wife. She might be described as a rather handsome person - owing to her good looks - who manipulates a piano and writes love letters to her husband with surpassing artistry. When last heard from she was taking part in the strike in Kansas City - which was unusual in at least two respects since according to all reports she is by custom a hard working woman and an inhabitant of Nevada - a town in Missouri, U.S.A., not the state. She would be in France, Europe, if she were a man and probably would anyway if she didn't have a mean husband and a far-seeing country that will not allow soldiers wives to take part in the fight. You're right - that's about enough of that kind of stuff. But since you shake the fact about Mrs. Roosevelt under my nose, I'll have to defend the situation by explaining that she arrived before General Order - (whatever the number is) was passed. I don't see why I didn't send you over last summer so you'd be here when I came. Do you? But anyway, Captain Adams 'lows this is no place for a woman. He has just cabled his wife to lay off a Red Cross job through which she was planning to get over. He doesn't believe in the superiority of the male of the species either. Perhaps he's right, but that doesn't keep me from
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