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Conger Reynolds correspondence, September 1918

1918-09-09 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 2

lines looking for words that I knew. It seems that every other word speaks of "votre cher mari," and the good lady most cordially invites me to consider her house as mine when I visit France. I shall answer her in English for two perfectly good reasons---the main one being that I could as easily write Chinese as French, and the other being that it will give Miss Margarite something to do. By now she must have reached a high degree of efficiency, with the help of Lieutenant Hartzell. I'm so glad you lived among such kindly folk, and I hope you have the opportunity to visit there again. If you do so after this reaches you, be sure to tell them how glad I was to hear from "Jeanne," and that I think she is a perfectly good lady---a regular old George W. Ma. This last bunch of letters has comforted me a deal more than you'd any idea it would. I've been so depressed by the idea that you were

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lines looking for words that I knew. It seems that every other word speaks of "votre cher mari," and the good lady most cordially invites me to consider her house as mine when I visit France. I shall answer her in English for two perfectly good reasons---the main one being that I could as easily write Chinese as French, and the other being that it will give Miss Margarite something to do. By now she must have reached a high degree of efficiency, with the help of Lieutenant Hartzell. I'm so glad you lived among such kindly folk, and I hope you have the opportunity to visit there again. If you do so after this reaches you, be sure to tell them how glad I was to hear from "Jeanne," and that I think she is a perfectly good lady---a regular old George W. Ma. This last bunch of letters has comforted me a deal more than you'd any idea it would. I've been so depressed by the idea that you were