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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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little white enamelled dining room that is the officer's own, and were served from a kitchen to the rear where a colored brothah presided over the stove. The food was just plain roast beef and masked potatoes and tomatoes and beans, but powerfully good as a change from the French cuisine. And at the close came a luscious cream pie! It had meringue on top, an' everything - and it was that thick. Oh, girl, I loved the nigger who had made it for us. It had been yeahs and yeahs since I had tasted pie. After luncheon there was a tour through the long train for Mrs. Shall to see things and Mr. to feel. It wound up in the store-room, where, by simply expressing a wish Mangan and I got a pile of pajamas. The result is that I am two pairs of pajamas ahead tonight. And since I gave a pair to Hartzell and he didn't give 'em back I was needing them. Our "sector" is becoming fairly busy now. My scheme of organizing an official news-gathering force has developed rapidly and I now have lieutenants on liaison duty at three different places and reporting to me by courier and by telephone several times a day. The result is I have more to do and more to worry
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little white enamelled dining room that is the officer's own, and were served from a kitchen to the rear where a colored brothah presided over the stove. The food was just plain roast beef and masked potatoes and tomatoes and beans, but powerfully good as a change from the French cuisine. And at the close came a luscious cream pie! It had meringue on top, an' everything - and it was that thick. Oh, girl, I loved the nigger who had made it for us. It had been yeahs and yeahs since I had tasted pie. After luncheon there was a tour through the long train for Mrs. Shall to see things and Mr. to feel. It wound up in the store-room, where, by simply expressing a wish Mangan and I got a pile of pajamas. The result is that I am two pairs of pajamas ahead tonight. And since I gave a pair to Hartzell and he didn't give 'em back I was needing them. Our "sector" is becoming fairly busy now. My scheme of organizing an official news-gathering force has developed rapidly and I now have lieutenants on liaison duty at three different places and reporting to me by courier and by telephone several times a day. The result is I have more to do and more to worry
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