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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 16-31, 1918

1918-03-26 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 6

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Your story of the briefest temperance lecture reminds me of a very clever thing a correspondent put in a story the other day. Describing the importance of speedy action with the gas mask in case of gas attack he said that the following new proverb had arisen in the traditions at the front: "After a gas attack there are only two kinds of soldiers - the quick and the dead." Your painting is exquisite. Don't do it though, if it is any extra trouble. Your handwriting will carry any letter to its destination without error. I am less sure about mine; so I continue to print. Yes, I know dear - neither of us would be quite so disinterested about the rest of the world if we were only sweethearts. You would be playing with Dickey and Joey (oh please
 
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