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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-06 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

arriving there it has had, I judge from the marks on the envelope, an adventurous career. It evidently had seen a lot more of France than I have. 
I fairly gobbled it up. You know I hadn't heard the details of the great party. And it was indeed a dandy affair. 
It seems odd to read now, two months after, your reaction to letters that I wrote just after you went away. But I am none the less thrilled at knowing you like them and at your "I want you so much - and more all the time." Dost continue so? 
You description of the dinner is so vivid that I can readily picture it - the long, candle-lit table with your charming youngsters sitting up to it trying to repress their bubbling spirits to meet the formality of the occasion, the colors and the marguerites, and you sitting up beside the Prexy doing contortions with your left hand to keep your wedding ring out of sight. And then the hush as Mrs. S - rose to speak. She

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arriving there it has had, I judge from the marks on the envelope, an adventurous career. It evidently had seen a lot more of France than I have. I fairly gobbled it up. You know I hadn't heard the details of the great party. And it was indeed a dandy affair. It seems odd to read now, two months after, your reaction to letters that I wrote just after you went away. But I am none the less thrilled at knowing you like them and at your "I want you so much - and more all the time." Dost continue so? You description of the dinner is so vivid that I can readily picture it - the long, candle-lit table with your charming youngsters sitting up to it trying to repress their bubbling spirits to meet the formality of the occasion, the colors and the marguerites, and you sitting up beside the Prexy doing contortions with your left hand to keep your wedding ring out of sight. And then the hush as Mrs. S - rose to speak. She