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Conger Reynolds correspondence, November 1918
1918-11-30 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 5
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look at the countless down trodden members of my sex would set me right if I ever had any doubts on the score. The thing is: is there no longer anything sacred about marriage? Doesn't it mean anything to people but a love-sick couple and a lot of balderdash by St. Paul? One expects inane remarks from girls and boys at sixteen, who are in the throes of puppy love, but from a woman - a school-teacher, and red-headed at that -- ! Gott straf' 'er, anyhow. You see, do you, what terrible outbursts of my temper you'll have to endure. I get wrought up by the funniest things on earth. Two large envelopes from you were in the mail today. I take it they contain the Christmas you wrote of, and I'm not opening them at all because I know good & well if I saw my name on anything I'd
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look at the countless down trodden members of my sex would set me right if I ever had any doubts on the score. The thing is: is there no longer anything sacred about marriage? Doesn't it mean anything to people but a love-sick couple and a lot of balderdash by St. Paul? One expects inane remarks from girls and boys at sixteen, who are in the throes of puppy love, but from a woman - a school-teacher, and red-headed at that -- ! Gott straf' 'er, anyhow. You see, do you, what terrible outbursts of my temper you'll have to endure. I get wrought up by the funniest things on earth. Two large envelopes from you were in the mail today. I take it they contain the Christmas you wrote of, and I'm not opening them at all because I know good & well if I saw my name on anything I'd
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