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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-19 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2
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twenty-six. I think I'll save the rest for the lean days probably ahead now. It's hard not to read the one in the Muehleback envelope. It piques my curiosity - brings back memories and things. Why this threatening me about your intention to do concert work? Didn't I tell you to go ahead just so you took your mother along to lead you around in a paddock after concerts while you're cooling off? I wrote to Fred to-day about your inclination and suggested you would be a find for Redpath-Vawter. I told him I wasn't asking a favor - that you were a real entertainer - that you'd probably break into concert work with someone if you set out to do it - that I was tipping him off for his own good and because I'd be happier to know such things as the routing of your triumphal tour and selection of your stopping points were (!*x!) in his capable hands instead of with some less interested manager. I told him he would hear you this summer but that if he wanted to give you a contact before that an earlier hearing might be arranged. If, when this arrives, you've decided definitely that you want to do concert, and you've won mother to the idea, perhaps you'd better write him what you have in mind and inquire whether Redpath wants to negotiate. What think? I've never tried to go into concert work; I don't know much about the procedure. But I can vouch for the fact that you'll
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twenty-six. I think I'll save the rest for the lean days probably ahead now. It's hard not to read the one in the Muehleback envelope. It piques my curiosity - brings back memories and things. Why this threatening me about your intention to do concert work? Didn't I tell you to go ahead just so you took your mother along to lead you around in a paddock after concerts while you're cooling off? I wrote to Fred to-day about your inclination and suggested you would be a find for Redpath-Vawter. I told him I wasn't asking a favor - that you were a real entertainer - that you'd probably break into concert work with someone if you set out to do it - that I was tipping him off for his own good and because I'd be happier to know such things as the routing of your triumphal tour and selection of your stopping points were (!*x!) in his capable hands instead of with some less interested manager. I told him he would hear you this summer but that if he wanted to give you a contact before that an earlier hearing might be arranged. If, when this arrives, you've decided definitely that you want to do concert, and you've won mother to the idea, perhaps you'd better write him what you have in mind and inquire whether Redpath wants to negotiate. What think? I've never tried to go into concert work; I don't know much about the procedure. But I can vouch for the fact that you'll
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