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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-24 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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"in a hundred years." By a clever bit of figuring I discovered that when you wrote it had been fifteen days since you had heard from me. From my own experience I know that a wait like that is no fun. When I go that long I sink to the depths of despair. I am hoping that the next day the mail man brought you stacks of 'em. I know they were on the way to you. When you get an address that I know will find you at once I think I'll take to sending a cable occasionally just to remove the gap between us that the three or four weeks it takes a letter to travel maintains. If when on September 1, let us say, you are reading a letter that started a month before, and you get a cable only a day old, you'll know that all is well, no matter what the August letters that arrive after that say. Bless the baby! He certainly must have had a fine time at his birthday party. And his "Oh hell, Jim" was a very sophisticated remark for so young a young man to make about the fuss that was being made over him. About Lee Lewis -- may I inquire whoinell he is? You've mentioned him in (3) three (3) recent letters, and I'm getting fiercely jealous. B-r-r-r! If he's young and unattached and a sody-clerk, he'd better look out. I eat that kind alive when they start sending post-cards to my wife. You are a naughty girl to lose food and sleep over "The Sammybackers." Not that I disapprove of your working hard with it; I think your unselfishness in sacrificing your
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"in a hundred years." By a clever bit of figuring I discovered that when you wrote it had been fifteen days since you had heard from me. From my own experience I know that a wait like that is no fun. When I go that long I sink to the depths of despair. I am hoping that the next day the mail man brought you stacks of 'em. I know they were on the way to you. When you get an address that I know will find you at once I think I'll take to sending a cable occasionally just to remove the gap between us that the three or four weeks it takes a letter to travel maintains. If when on September 1, let us say, you are reading a letter that started a month before, and you get a cable only a day old, you'll know that all is well, no matter what the August letters that arrive after that say. Bless the baby! He certainly must have had a fine time at his birthday party. And his "Oh hell, Jim" was a very sophisticated remark for so young a young man to make about the fuss that was being made over him. About Lee Lewis -- may I inquire whoinell he is? You've mentioned him in (3) three (3) recent letters, and I'm getting fiercely jealous. B-r-r-r! If he's young and unattached and a sody-clerk, he'd better look out. I eat that kind alive when they start sending post-cards to my wife. You are a naughty girl to lose food and sleep over "The Sammybackers." Not that I disapprove of your working hard with it; I think your unselfishness in sacrificing your
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