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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
1918-06-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3
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pleasant change not to have to stay until 10 p.m. as I did down at N---, but not so agreeable to rise an hour earlier in the morning. Lieutenant Hartzell, who is with me, is a fine companion. I seldom develop a liking for a man as quickly as I have for him. I suppose it is because he had been a newspaper man and is therefore both wide awake and sophisticated. He had been on the New York Sun for four years before he went to war. His wife is French and all her relatives live in France. Yet she can't get a passport to come to France because she is the wife of an American officer. Hartzell and I explored the town a bit this morning and found it picturesque if not particularly clean and pretty. One of the good cathedrals of France is here - in fact has been here several hundred years,
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pleasant change not to have to stay until 10 p.m. as I did down at N---, but not so agreeable to rise an hour earlier in the morning. Lieutenant Hartzell, who is with me, is a fine companion. I seldom develop a liking for a man as quickly as I have for him. I suppose it is because he had been a newspaper man and is therefore both wide awake and sophisticated. He had been on the New York Sun for four years before he went to war. His wife is French and all her relatives live in France. Yet she can't get a passport to come to France because she is the wife of an American officer. Hartzell and I explored the town a bit this morning and found it picturesque if not particularly clean and pretty. One of the good cathedrals of France is here - in fact has been here several hundred years,
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