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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-01 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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and the annoyances were forgotten in your interest in your new surroundings -- the open country, the birds, and the queer, interesting folk that populate the region! Wouldn't I like to have been there with you to know those people! I'm chuckling yet at your quotations of the man who wanted to be "hostile" -- and liked a water-closet on the kitchen stove. You evidently done noble at riding horseback, though I betcha you knew by the second day that you had been astride something. If you didn't you were lucky. Many a hundred miles I have rid a horseback, but I shouldn't expect to ride one mile now without having a "you tell the world" feeling in my riding muscles next day. It was very pretty at G.Q.H. today. Being as it was the first of July we had a perfect June day. (Sorry.) The promenade under the trees in the center of the avenue that runs past headquarters was a picture at noon when it was alive with "les officiers Americains" going and coming. I went to lunch in the big Y hut for officers that has been put up since I was over last. There I met several of the old War College class -- all, I think, who are left there. Several have been sent to various subordinate headquarters. And the trip going and coming was beautiful in the sights it offered of the countryside clothed in the luxuriant
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and the annoyances were forgotten in your interest in your new surroundings -- the open country, the birds, and the queer, interesting folk that populate the region! Wouldn't I like to have been there with you to know those people! I'm chuckling yet at your quotations of the man who wanted to be "hostile" -- and liked a water-closet on the kitchen stove. You evidently done noble at riding horseback, though I betcha you knew by the second day that you had been astride something. If you didn't you were lucky. Many a hundred miles I have rid a horseback, but I shouldn't expect to ride one mile now without having a "you tell the world" feeling in my riding muscles next day. It was very pretty at G.Q.H. today. Being as it was the first of July we had a perfect June day. (Sorry.) The promenade under the trees in the center of the avenue that runs past headquarters was a picture at noon when it was alive with "les officiers Americains" going and coming. I went to lunch in the big Y hut for officers that has been put up since I was over last. There I met several of the old War College class -- all, I think, who are left there. Several have been sent to various subordinate headquarters. And the trip going and coming was beautiful in the sights it offered of the countryside clothed in the luxuriant
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