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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-07 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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workable notions of homemaking than a man. I think I've know a lot of girls whose taste I wouldn't want to trust in selecting the setting for complete satisfaction - but I didn't marry any of 'em, did I? I have such profound respect for your judgment and good taste that what I want to say is, "Here is so much money available; you say what we shall get." But that all lies ahead for our entertainment when we join forces again. Won't we have fun planning the details and carrying them out? Do write to me, meanwhile, about everything of the sort you have in mind, and don't feel queer about doing it. Aren't I your husband, and after all quite the same old lumbering interested sort of which good homemakers are made. Anyway I hope I am. I hope both of us have enough of the conventional temperament of the substantial folks who found firm homes that we shall find in that side of life as much satisfaction and interest as we have found in the extraordinary experiences of life that more or less special careers have brought us. Let's have the usual solid foundation with an artistic decoration furnished by the atmosphere of modern originality and culture that we can add. A bit abstract - but you'll comprehend. We're going to have a good old-fashioned home with all the improvements that two young persons of our education and brilliance (latter referring particularly to you) can give it. This is not going to be as easy to do as to walk into Ballagh's and get a lemon coke. We'll have to
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workable notions of homemaking than a man. I think I've know a lot of girls whose taste I wouldn't want to trust in selecting the setting for complete satisfaction - but I didn't marry any of 'em, did I? I have such profound respect for your judgment and good taste that what I want to say is, "Here is so much money available; you say what we shall get." But that all lies ahead for our entertainment when we join forces again. Won't we have fun planning the details and carrying them out? Do write to me, meanwhile, about everything of the sort you have in mind, and don't feel queer about doing it. Aren't I your husband, and after all quite the same old lumbering interested sort of which good homemakers are made. Anyway I hope I am. I hope both of us have enough of the conventional temperament of the substantial folks who found firm homes that we shall find in that side of life as much satisfaction and interest as we have found in the extraordinary experiences of life that more or less special careers have brought us. Let's have the usual solid foundation with an artistic decoration furnished by the atmosphere of modern originality and culture that we can add. A bit abstract - but you'll comprehend. We're going to have a good old-fashioned home with all the improvements that two young persons of our education and brilliance (latter referring particularly to you) can give it. This is not going to be as easy to do as to walk into Ballagh's and get a lemon coke. We'll have to
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