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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-12 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 1
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117 12 July, 1918 Dearest, -- I am sitting in the shade of the garden wall with a blooming rosebush at my left hand and a front view of plots of lettuce, parsnips, potatoes and beans. How will that do for a setting? If you don't care particularly for the vegetables, you may look at the cherries ripening against the wall and the scarlet clusters of currants -- or at the hedge dividing garden proper from our grove. Perhaps you might find fascinating the swaying of the tops of the fir tree and the beeches in the stiff breeze that is blowing up there. How very calm and pretty it is here! I wonder why I have not come into the garden to write before this. Much rather
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117 12 July, 1918 Dearest, -- I am sitting in the shade of the garden wall with a blooming rosebush at my left hand and a front view of plots of lettuce, parsnips, potatoes and beans. How will that do for a setting? If you don't care particularly for the vegetables, you may look at the cherries ripening against the wall and the scarlet clusters of currants -- or at the hedge dividing garden proper from our grove. Perhaps you might find fascinating the swaying of the tops of the fir tree and the beeches in the stiff breeze that is blowing up there. How very calm and pretty it is here! I wonder why I have not come into the garden to write before this. Much rather
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