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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-27 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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peasant house and talked to him for a half hour afterward in the garden of a place on a hillside form which one can look out over several miles of our front and see the hills in the distance where the enemy watches. It was a quiet day. We could hear an occasional boom of cannon, but to look down on the peasants toiling in the hillside vineyard was to be impelled to disbelieve that there was any war near. Arthur is in good trim and contented. Although he is so near to the front he doesn't get to see it. He is busy from the time he rises until it is bedtime with work in this office. He says that at night he sometimes goes out on the hillside and sees the fireworks that mark the battle line, but it is always like that - something he sees and hears, but doesn't know much about otherwise. His most important experience happened the other day when he got ten letters in a bunch after getting none for a long time. As per usual he asked after you. We pushed on toward the front, accomplished our mission without incident except to see a Boche plane fly over high above us, and drove back over an interesting route that I hadn't been on before. Judge Lindsey was with us at dinner again tonight. He talks unceasingly. Tonight he got so interested in telling us about his fight against corruption in Denver that he
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peasant house and talked to him for a half hour afterward in the garden of a place on a hillside form which one can look out over several miles of our front and see the hills in the distance where the enemy watches. It was a quiet day. We could hear an occasional boom of cannon, but to look down on the peasants toiling in the hillside vineyard was to be impelled to disbelieve that there was any war near. Arthur is in good trim and contented. Although he is so near to the front he doesn't get to see it. He is busy from the time he rises until it is bedtime with work in this office. He says that at night he sometimes goes out on the hillside and sees the fireworks that mark the battle line, but it is always like that - something he sees and hears, but doesn't know much about otherwise. His most important experience happened the other day when he got ten letters in a bunch after getting none for a long time. As per usual he asked after you. We pushed on toward the front, accomplished our mission without incident except to see a Boche plane fly over high above us, and drove back over an interesting route that I hadn't been on before. Judge Lindsey was with us at dinner again tonight. He talks unceasingly. Tonight he got so interested in telling us about his fight against corruption in Denver that he
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