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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918

1918-07-07 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

of the Creation she gave us for dessert in honor of the day!  The town was quiet - no firecrackers popping - though the two main streets of the village were a mass of flags and bunting.  The Tri color and the Stars and Stripes, and often other flags of the Allies floated from every second story.  And stretched across the streets every hundred feet or so were strings of smaller flags.  I suppose it was so throughout France, for the Chamber had made our Fourth a French holiday.
The weather was not so sympathetic.  The sky was grey and the temperature was shivery.  It was the coldest Fourth I can remember, even more - oh much more - so than last year's, which was not as hot as many I recall.  When Martine found that I expected to spend the afternoon in my room writing she insisted on putting a fire

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of the Creation she gave us for dessert in honor of the day! The town was quiet - no firecrackers popping - though the two main streets of the village were a mass of flags and bunting. The Tri color and the Stars and Stripes, and often other flags of the Allies floated from every second story. And stretched across the streets every hundred feet or so were strings of smaller flags. I suppose it was so throughout France, for the Chamber had made our Fourth a French holiday. The weather was not so sympathetic. The sky was grey and the temperature was shivery. It was the coldest Fourth I can remember, even more - oh much more - so than last year's, which was not as hot as many I recall. When Martine found that I expected to spend the afternoon in my room writing she insisted on putting a fire