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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918

1918-06-18 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 1

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June 18, 1918.
Honey, dear, -- Such a monotony of eventless days is upon me just now I fell there is very little to write about.  Even being in a strange, interesting land and engaged in a war gets to be the common, normal way of life and tiresome to write of.  Today I'm having a spell of feeling fed up on it.  I want to take my wife to see Charlie Chaplin kick somebody in the face and then I want to go to the Muehlebach or the Radisson or the Willard or the Knickerbocker - or somewhere in the United States - and have a strawberry shortcake.  I haven't seen a movie or anything better for seventeen years, and good as French cooking is, I could stand a shift once in awhile to the favorites of former days.
I'm so hungry for just a sight of you, dear.  Even if I could see somebody who would somehow

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101 June 18, 1918. Honey, dear, -- Such a monotony of eventless days is upon me just now I fell there is very little to write about. Even being in a strange, interesting land and engaged in a war gets to be the common, normal way of life and tiresome to write of. Today I'm having a spell of feeling fed up on it. I want to take my wife to see Charlie Chaplin kick somebody in the face and then I want to go to the Muehlebach or the Radisson or the Willard or the Knickerbocker - or somewhere in the United States - and have a strawberry shortcake. I haven't seen a movie or anything better for seventeen years, and good as French cooking is, I could stand a shift once in awhile to the favorites of former days. I'm so hungry for just a sight of you, dear. Even if I could see somebody who would somehow