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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918

1918-04-25 Conger Reynolds to Emily Reynolds Page 5

my own feet.  And I'm glad that I had parents who taught me how to blaze it straight and have left me alone to do it. I like wholesome people.  And, thank God, my father and mother are that. They're so genuine that you'll probably have to know them awhile to see the fineness back of the plain exterior of their characters. My dad often uses horrible grammar and his spelling is so funny that I can't understand how he can do it otherwise than knowingly. But he thinks straight and right and well. And he always brings my mother flowers from the woods in the springtime and crimson sumac leaves and bitter-sweet berries in autumn. And mother sees the beauties in the prairie vistas and hears the music in the chirping of the crickets. So they have something that some more prosperous folks miss. I love them deeply and honor them proudly.  And that is why I am very eager that you shall like them - and Daphne shall like them - and not be misled by their simple outward manners and plain ways of living to think they are without culture or in any way short on the fine qualities that we all want Daphne's husband's family to have. I put it rather awkwardly but you'll understand - I'm merely trying to make it easy for you to know the golden hearts of two of the finest parents a man ever had.
   I gave you the wrong impression about the French uniform. At the front

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my own feet. And I'm glad that I had parents who taught me how to blaze it straight and have left me alone to do it. I like wholesome people. And, thank God, my father and mother are that. They're so genuine that you'll probably have to know them awhile to see the fineness back of the plain exterior of their characters. My dad often uses horrible grammar and his spelling is so funny that I can't understand how he can do it otherwise than knowingly. But he thinks straight and right and well. And he always brings my mother flowers from the woods in the springtime and crimson sumac leaves and bitter-sweet berries in autumn. And mother sees the beauties in the prairie vistas and hears the music in the chirping of the crickets. So they have something that some more prosperous folks miss. I love them deeply and honor them proudly. And that is why I am very eager that you shall like them - and Daphne shall like them - and not be misled by their simple outward manners and plain ways of living to think they are without culture or in any way short on the fine qualities that we all want Daphne's husband's family to have. I put it rather awkwardly but you'll understand - I'm merely trying to make it easy for you to know the golden hearts of two of the finest parents a man ever had. I gave you the wrong impression about the French uniform. At the front