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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-21 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 7

man's job because he can't do much else toward the homemaking. But they ought to work at the problems of life together the better to relish its happiness. To be concrete: if my chief occupation were building bridges you would want to encourage me by your interest to build good bridges while I should want to be wide awake to what you were doing to make our home beautiful and comfortable and none the less encouraging of work you might be doing, let us say, at writing poetry! That's it. Common interests, common helpfulness, common happiness. - Well, I've strayed a long way. What I started to say is that although I'm now earning more than I ever did I am not satisfied. It's not enough to speed our home-building fast enough nor to adjust your share of the work so that you can give the time to your music which you owe it. You see I don't want to make things easy for you; I just want to divert your energy from some of the less pleasant things

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man's job because he can't do much else toward the homemaking. But they ought to work at the problems of life together the better to relish its happiness. To be concrete: if my chief occupation were building bridges you would want to encourage me by your interest to build good bridges while I should want to be wide awake to what you were doing to make our home beautiful and comfortable and none the less encouraging of work you might be doing, let us say, at writing poetry! That's it. Common interests, common helpfulness, common happiness. - Well, I've strayed a long way. What I started to say is that although I'm now earning more than I ever did I am not satisfied. It's not enough to speed our home-building fast enough nor to adjust your share of the work so that you can give the time to your music which you owe it. You see I don't want to make things easy for you; I just want to divert your energy from some of the less pleasant things