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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-10 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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life that will give us no great luxuries or thrills but will nevertheless permit us to have a rather pleasant time. The alternative to going to Iowa City would be to go to some small city where I could have a newspaper of my own, or to Des Moines where I could get into any one of several good things, or to go to Minneapolis or Chicago or New York or anywhere else where I might find a good paying newspaper job. The most attractive of these possibilities is perhaps that of going to New York. There I should have a real chance to stretch out at newspaper work and possibly magazine work. There you could make the best of your music. There we should find plays and operas and art and all the fascination of life in a great city. The income probably would not be so much at the beginning but there would be the chance of its becoming much larger. Our home would probably be shifting, and usually some kind of apartment. We might become able to have everything we wanted, and we might find it difficult to make ends meet. Friends would probably be few but they probably would be our own sort and very enjoyable. We should have thrills and pleasure a plenty, but quiet comfort and lazy vacations and stable home life might not be so certain. I confess I hardly know whether I want to go back to Iowa City or try something like the New York stunt. It will depend largely on what my sweetheart would rather we should do together. Of course, when the time
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life that will give us no great luxuries or thrills but will nevertheless permit us to have a rather pleasant time. The alternative to going to Iowa City would be to go to some small city where I could have a newspaper of my own, or to Des Moines where I could get into any one of several good things, or to go to Minneapolis or Chicago or New York or anywhere else where I might find a good paying newspaper job. The most attractive of these possibilities is perhaps that of going to New York. There I should have a real chance to stretch out at newspaper work and possibly magazine work. There you could make the best of your music. There we should find plays and operas and art and all the fascination of life in a great city. The income probably would not be so much at the beginning but there would be the chance of its becoming much larger. Our home would probably be shifting, and usually some kind of apartment. We might become able to have everything we wanted, and we might find it difficult to make ends meet. Friends would probably be few but they probably would be our own sort and very enjoyable. We should have thrills and pleasure a plenty, but quiet comfort and lazy vacations and stable home life might not be so certain. I confess I hardly know whether I want to go back to Iowa City or try something like the New York stunt. It will depend largely on what my sweetheart would rather we should do together. Of course, when the time
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