Transcribe
Translate
Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-11 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
when I'll thank Heaven and you for it with full appreciation of its comfort. Meantimes I'm very glad to have it ready and to have it as concrete evidence of your capable handiwork, and of your solicitude for your husband's well-being. Will you take kisses in payment? If so, name the amount and you shall have them. Now I shall give the helmet I've had to some soldier who has none. It's not as good as the one my wife has made for me, but it will do very much better than none for somebody. So you can know that in being good to your hubby you've also done a kind turn for another of Uncle Sam's boys. The letter was the one you wrote February 26th. It's as good as an extry because I had supposed I had received all of them from that far back. I should like indeed to see the nineteen-piece luncheon set and all the other booful things you tell me about. Your friends are delightful about fitting us out. We'll be prepared to give a large party the first evening we get into our apartment or house or shack or whatever we do get into. No, I never heard a red bird. I want to. Won't you send a few over? Spring comes here so slowly. I haven't heard the birds at all. They don't wake me in the morning as they would at home at this time of year. I remember having my eyes opened to the glories of the April mornings a year ago by the robins outside my sleeping porch so near I could almost reach out and
Saving...
prev
next
when I'll thank Heaven and you for it with full appreciation of its comfort. Meantimes I'm very glad to have it ready and to have it as concrete evidence of your capable handiwork, and of your solicitude for your husband's well-being. Will you take kisses in payment? If so, name the amount and you shall have them. Now I shall give the helmet I've had to some soldier who has none. It's not as good as the one my wife has made for me, but it will do very much better than none for somebody. So you can know that in being good to your hubby you've also done a kind turn for another of Uncle Sam's boys. The letter was the one you wrote February 26th. It's as good as an extry because I had supposed I had received all of them from that far back. I should like indeed to see the nineteen-piece luncheon set and all the other booful things you tell me about. Your friends are delightful about fitting us out. We'll be prepared to give a large party the first evening we get into our apartment or house or shack or whatever we do get into. No, I never heard a red bird. I want to. Won't you send a few over? Spring comes here so slowly. I haven't heard the birds at all. They don't wake me in the morning as they would at home at this time of year. I remember having my eyes opened to the glories of the April mornings a year ago by the robins outside my sleeping porch so near I could almost reach out and
World War I Diaries and Letters
sidebar
