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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-03 Conger Reynolds to Daphe Reynolds Page 5
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it right heartily, even if its contents did start the wheels in my head running wild. It was alone, so I'm expecting more before many days pass. Keeping it company however were a letter from the Governor's secretary and a lovely letter from Trix. Earlier in the day had arrived a box of candy - the taffy tablets done up in paper. Someone must have been sitting on the box all the way over. It was simply flat. Naturally the pieces of candy were also flattened. But that did not detract from their deliciousness. Don Martin of the New York Herald was in the office when I opened the box and passed it. A few minutes later I heard him telling Lieutenant Parks what good stuff "that candy" was. Of course, I fell and got out the box again. You can't know how big a hit it makes because you don't know how the utter lack of candy in the country encourages a craving for it. Yesterday afternoon the word came that another of our airmen had won a victory. I hopped into a Cadillac and rushed to the front to get certain desired information. Up at the airfield I had a most interesting visit. I met the famous Major Lufberry, Captain Norman Hall, who is an Iowa man and whose excellent war articles in the Atlantic have excited my interest for two or three years, Eddie Rickenbacker, the former auto race driver who brought down his first Boche last Monday, and a lot more fine, likable chaps. While
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it right heartily, even if its contents did start the wheels in my head running wild. It was alone, so I'm expecting more before many days pass. Keeping it company however were a letter from the Governor's secretary and a lovely letter from Trix. Earlier in the day had arrived a box of candy - the taffy tablets done up in paper. Someone must have been sitting on the box all the way over. It was simply flat. Naturally the pieces of candy were also flattened. But that did not detract from their deliciousness. Don Martin of the New York Herald was in the office when I opened the box and passed it. A few minutes later I heard him telling Lieutenant Parks what good stuff "that candy" was. Of course, I fell and got out the box again. You can't know how big a hit it makes because you don't know how the utter lack of candy in the country encourages a craving for it. Yesterday afternoon the word came that another of our airmen had won a victory. I hopped into a Cadillac and rushed to the front to get certain desired information. Up at the airfield I had a most interesting visit. I met the famous Major Lufberry, Captain Norman Hall, who is an Iowa man and whose excellent war articles in the Atlantic have excited my interest for two or three years, Eddie Rickenbacker, the former auto race driver who brought down his first Boche last Monday, and a lot more fine, likable chaps. While
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