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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
1918-06-29 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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may I go along? I'll show you all my wonder-places if you'll let me. I am glad you are that way - the way you are about birds and woods and swamps and all that belongs out-doors. I don't understand the attitude in you any more than I understand it in myself, but it fits with the feeling I have about the same things and makes your spirit all the closer and dearer to mine. x x x x x I had to break off to turn to on the evening grind. It is now nearly ten o'clock, and I'm still madder'n mad from something that happened three hours ago. One of our Pevis people - a captain - rolled in here with Otto Kahn and asked us to put him up. I smiled sweetly and said he could have my room. Then, after they got out of sight I made the surrounding atmosphere blue. Even if old Otto is a millionaire banker and (Curses!) head of the Metropolitan Opera, and an emissary from the president I don't like to have myself uprooted for him. More than at this particular annoyance, I am down on the whole system we have for looking after guests. The French and the British have magnificent chateaux where they entertain distinguished visitors at government expense. Our chiefs have turned down the idea of having a chateau and when anyone comes along who is too important
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may I go along? I'll show you all my wonder-places if you'll let me. I am glad you are that way - the way you are about birds and woods and swamps and all that belongs out-doors. I don't understand the attitude in you any more than I understand it in myself, but it fits with the feeling I have about the same things and makes your spirit all the closer and dearer to mine. x x x x x I had to break off to turn to on the evening grind. It is now nearly ten o'clock, and I'm still madder'n mad from something that happened three hours ago. One of our Pevis people - a captain - rolled in here with Otto Kahn and asked us to put him up. I smiled sweetly and said he could have my room. Then, after they got out of sight I made the surrounding atmosphere blue. Even if old Otto is a millionaire banker and (Curses!) head of the Metropolitan Opera, and an emissary from the president I don't like to have myself uprooted for him. More than at this particular annoyance, I am down on the whole system we have for looking after guests. The French and the British have magnificent chateaux where they entertain distinguished visitors at government expense. Our chiefs have turned down the idea of having a chateau and when anyone comes along who is too important
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