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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-15 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

was on his way to a hospital; I was hurrying through to Nancy on a job that had to be done quickly. I only talked with him a few minutes. He told me the situation and almost sobbed as he did, not because he was ill, but because he couldn't go on with the work in which he had already broken all records. He looked thin and worn and pale but because he was able to go along unattended I thought he would be all right after a rest and good feeding in a hospital. I offered him money but he said he had plenty. So I cheered him as best I could, particularly by telling him he would surely get to go home at once. So we planned to see each other next in Iowa city, and I bade him good luck and a good voyage. 
That was the last I saw of him. Today I heard that he died of pneumonia December 24 in a hospital here in Paris. I immediately

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was on his way to a hospital; I was hurrying through to Nancy on a job that had to be done quickly. I only talked with him a few minutes. He told me the situation and almost sobbed as he did, not because he was ill, but because he couldn't go on with the work in which he had already broken all records. He looked thin and worn and pale but because he was able to go along unattended I thought he would be all right after a rest and good feeding in a hospital. I offered him money but he said he had plenty. So I cheered him as best I could, particularly by telling him he would surely get to go home at once. So we planned to see each other next in Iowa city, and I bade him good luck and a good voyage. That was the last I saw of him. Today I heard that he died of pneumonia December 24 in a hospital here in Paris. I immediately