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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-26 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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correspondent, "Forty-second street?" "I should say not," said the doughboy, much disgusted, "I'm from Forty-third." There's local pride for you. The mail came today after having missed us for a day. Imagine my degust at receiving nothing but a newspaper. It's been a whole week since I had letters from you. The date on the last was March 20, however. I can't expect later ones for a day or two yet unless they are making record time. But that doesn't decrease my eagerness for the day to come. I wonder if you know how important your letters are in your husband's young life and how thoroughly he loves you for the way you've kept them coming? How are all the children of the family? I should like to be remembered to them anew. Anything I can do for any of them? When is graduation time, and which ones will be graduated? When do you leave Cottey? By the time you read this I presume you will jes' about be on your way and will have answered the question on your own forethought. I fell short two hours on my sleeping schedule last night - an awful irregularity in army life, sometimes. So I think I'll betake me now to me couch - which is almost four inches too short for my long legs and consequently hasn't all the attractions it might have. But I should kick, shouldn't I? I might be sleeping on chicken wire in a dugout with the rats and cooties - ugh.
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correspondent, "Forty-second street?" "I should say not," said the doughboy, much disgusted, "I'm from Forty-third." There's local pride for you. The mail came today after having missed us for a day. Imagine my degust at receiving nothing but a newspaper. It's been a whole week since I had letters from you. The date on the last was March 20, however. I can't expect later ones for a day or two yet unless they are making record time. But that doesn't decrease my eagerness for the day to come. I wonder if you know how important your letters are in your husband's young life and how thoroughly he loves you for the way you've kept them coming? How are all the children of the family? I should like to be remembered to them anew. Anything I can do for any of them? When is graduation time, and which ones will be graduated? When do you leave Cottey? By the time you read this I presume you will jes' about be on your way and will have answered the question on your own forethought. I fell short two hours on my sleeping schedule last night - an awful irregularity in army life, sometimes. So I think I'll betake me now to me couch - which is almost four inches too short for my long legs and consequently hasn't all the attractions it might have. But I should kick, shouldn't I? I might be sleeping on chicken wire in a dugout with the rats and cooties - ugh.
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